Rob spoke with Melissa Block on NPR’s All Things Considered yesterday, along with Kentucky Secretary of State Tray Grayson. They discussed solutions to the broken presidential primary system, and Rob focused on the FairVote-backed “American Plan,” a system that creates clusters of primaries of increasing state size.
You can listen to the broadcast here, [...]

FairVote’s own Rob Richie was among the panel of guests on Thursday’s “Kojo Nnamdi Show” on WAMU, where the conversation centered on making elections more fair, with a particular focus on Maryland’s kicking off the National Popular Vote compact. The show also explored declining confidence in the electoral process, and some different ideas about [...]

On Monday, Rob addressed a conference on democracy and corporations held by the Center for the Study of Responsive Law in Washington, DC. Rob focused on FairVote’s full pro-democracy agenda, saying that each success “can open our political imagination to the other changes that we can make.”
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FairVote Executive Director Rob Richie will speak at Kent State University on January 17, 2006.
He’s giving a keynote luncheon address at a symposium entitled 2008 and Beyond: The Future of Election and Ethics Reform in the States. Rob’s remarks will focus on key FairVote reforms including instant runoff voting, the National Popular Vote campaign and [...]