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Building an Iraqi coalition is part of democracy
- Posted: March 25, 2010
- Author(s): Pauline Lejeune
- Publication: The National
- Categories: Home, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, FairVote
FairVote's Pauline Lejeune responds to an article about the March 7th Iraqi Parliamentary elections.
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San Leandro goes with ranked-choice voting system
- Posted: January 21, 2010
- Author(s): Jason Sweeney
- Publication: Oakland Tribune
- Categories: Home, Instant Runoff Voting, FairVote
After a much-anticipated vote, ranked-choice voting is a go in San Leandro.
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Consider shifting spring elections to fall
- Posted: January 13, 2010
- Publication: Capital Times
- Categories: Home, Instant Runoff Voting, FairVote
"Instant-runoff voting is working in communities across the country, including San Francisco and Burlington, Vt., and has tremendous potential to democratize our politics."
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Virginia's ballot-box disgrace
- Posted: January 13, 2010
- Publication: Washington Post
- Categories: Home, Felon Disenfranchisement, FairVote
Washington Post editorial comes out forcefully in favor of overturning Virginia's restrictions on felons' voting rights, which it calls "nothing short of a scandal."
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Judge approves plan for June trustee election
- Posted: January 8, 2010
- Author(s): Jananne Abel
- Publication: Port Chester Westmore News
- Categories: Home, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Cumulative Voting, FairVote
Port Chester will use an at-large cumulative voting system to elect its trustees in 2010: “I think that all parties worked very well and very hard together to come up with a novel approach to a cumulative voting program,” said Randolph McLaughlin . . . a Pace University Law School professor. “The voter education program we put together is a model for the rest of the country.”
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Voting Equipment and the Way Elections Are Run
- Posted: November 7, 2009
- Author(s): Rob Richie
- Publication: New York Times
- Categories: Research & Analysis, FairVote
Rob Richie's letter to the editor on the dangers of the consolidation of the voting equipment industry -- placed in contrast to one of the leaders of that same industry.
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Don Fraser and George Latimer: The case for instant-runoff voting is clear
- Posted: October 30, 2009
- Author(s): Don Frasier and George Latimer
- Publication: Star Tribune
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, FairVote
Two former politicians tell St. Paul voters that IRV is "vitally important to us as citizens and as members of our communities." -
Plurality voting rule is the real election spoiler
- Posted: October 29, 2009
- Author(s): John B. Anderson
- Publication: Baltimore Sun
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, FairVote
In the midst of 3-way races in NJ and NY, FairVote board member and 1980 presidential candidate John Anderson makes the case for IRV over our flawed plurality system. -
CHARTER AMENDMENT 3: County voters would lose power
- Posted: October 25, 2009
- Author(s): Richard Anderson-Connolly
- Publication: The News Tribune
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, FairVote
Amendment 3 to the Pierce county charter is an attempt by incumbent politicians to rig the system and prevent any serious challengers from competing. IRV is simply too fair and too democratic to not keep using in our electoral system. -
St. Paul should join IRV bandwagon
- Posted: October 22, 2009
- Publication: Star Tribune
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, FairVote
Star Tribune stands behind IRV voting. They believe that if this system is used in St. Paul, it will show the state of Missouri that IRV can work and can better represent the voters in the state.