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When it comes to improving the way we hold elections in the United States, there is no better source for analysis and perspective than FairVote. Staffed with experts in a wide range of electoral issues, FairVote can provide members of the media with something beyond facts and figures; a deep understanding of the real-world, human implications of the methods by which we choose our leaders and representatives.

In particular, our decidedly accessible Innovative Analysis series helps break down the often abstract aspects our electoral processes in a concise and entertaining way. Our formal reports, meanwhile, delve deeply into the mechanics of our democracy and explain how those details affect our larger political system and the formulation of policy.

For a uniquely informed and impassioned take on American electoral systems, be sure to get in touch with FairVote.

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FairVote Related News

  • San Leandro goes with ranked-choice voting system

    January 21, 2010 // Oakland Tribune

    After a much-anticipated vote, ranked-choice voting is a go in San Leandro.

  • Consider shifting spring elections to fall

    January 13, 2010 // Capital Times

    "Instant-runoff voting is working in communities across the country, including San Francisco and Burlington, Vt., and has tremendous potential to democratize our politics."

  • Virginia's ballot-box disgrace

    January 13, 2010 // Washington Post

    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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Innovative Analysis

  • Oscar Night Special: Be an Oscar Voter with IRV

    March 5, 2010

    Vote like you're in the Academy: FairVote's Oscar Special Newsletter

  • E-Newsletter February 24, 2010

    February 24, 2010

    Features:

    • Spotlight: Instant Runoff Voting
         * A national referendum in the UK, the Oscar for Best Picture, three American cities enact it for November 2010 and more
    • Electoral Reform Highlights
        * Stopping the ES&S monopoly, Richie in the Washington Post, Port Chester votes
    • From the FairVote Blog

  • Oscar Blog Focuses on New Instant Runoff Voting System

    January 28, 2010 (Urgent/Immediate Release)

    Hollywood meets election reform as FairVote launches a new blog focused on the Academy Awards' new instant runoff voting system for Best Picture. "Oscar Votes 1-2-3" (http://oscarvotes123.com) is the nation's primary website to analyze the Oscars from the perspective of its newly-adopted preferential voting system for Best Picture. The site will also have information about the similar "choice voting" system of preferential voting used for decades for most Oscar nominations.

  • Suffragium Ex Machina

    November 12, 2009

    Today the machinery of American democracy (literally) is increasingly dependent on one large corporation with little interest in transparency, competition or innovations that might affect its bottom line. For years FairVote has proposed publicly controlled voting processes, ideally with transparent administration and clear lines of accountability grounded in publicly owned voting equipment.

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