Entries from January, 2012

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• Presidential Tracker: New Evidence of our Shrinking Battleground

  • Posted: January 30, 2012
  • Author(s): Presidential Tracker, Katie P. Kelly, Hüseyin Koyuncu
  • Categories: Presidential Tracker, Home, National Popular Vote

  President Obama's travel patterns over the past  months have been leaning toward battleground and fundraising states. How does the whole of 2011 shape up? We summarize the past year and look at what is to come as the 2012 presidential election year comes into full swing. 

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• The Supply Side: Alternative Reform Approaches to Campaign Finance

  • Posted: January 26, 2012
  • Author(s): Joe Witte, Tyler Sadonis
  • Categories: Home

  Last Saturday marked the two-year anniversary of the controversial U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Citizens United overturned decades of campaign finance law by extending First Amendment protection to political expenditures by corporations and unions. Most reformers focus on how to affect the supply of money in politics, whereas FairVote focuses on electoral reforms that will reduce the demand for money in politics by reducing the impact of money.

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• South Carolina Primary: One Candidate May Easily Win All Delegates

  • Posted: January 20, 2012
  • Author(s): Rob Richie, Elise Helgesen
  • Categories: Home, Presidential Nominations Reform

  South Carolina's primary is on the horizon. Though the state has not played by the rules - and has been penalized by the Republican National Committee - the primary promises to be an exciting one. South Carolina's system of delegate allocation may potentially award all of the state's delegates, as well as a much-needed upswing in momentum, to the winning candidate as the race continues on toward Florida.

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• South Carolina voters better enjoy it while it lasts

  • Posted: January 20, 2012
  • Author(s): Rob Richie, Katie P. Kelly
  • Categories: Home, National Popular Vote, Presidential Nominations Reform

  With the South Carolina primary just around the corner on Saturday, the preferences of South Carolina voters are of intense interest to the nation -and of course to the candidates swarming the states. Events, polls, debates and the media are all focused on South Carolina voters. But after Saturday? Forget it. 

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• RCV for the GOP: Mitt Romney, Fractured Conservatives, and the Importance of Rules in Determining Election Outcomes

  • Posted: January 20, 2012
  • Author(s): Sheahan Virgin
  • Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, Home, Presidential Nominations Reform

  Some conservatives wonder how Mitt Romney has become the favorite for the nomination in a Republican party moving rightward. Others embrace Romney. One problem for believers of both views is the plurality voting rule that means winners don't have to secure a majority. Plurality voting arguably has been negative for all parties involved in the nomination race—whether Romney or his more conservative challengers. The solution, FairVote argues, lies in the adoption of an alternative framework:  ranked choice voting.

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• FairVote Tracks GOP Primaries: Understanding Proportional Representation in NH

  • Posted: January 12, 2012
  • Author(s): FairVote
  • Categories: Home, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation

  The New Hampshire GOP allocates its delegates proportionally. How exactly do they allocate their delegates? And, how do different methods change the results?

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• The Role of Proportional Representation in the New Hampshire Primary

  • Posted: January 10, 2012
  • Author(s): Rob Richie, Elise Helgesen
  • Categories: Home, Presidential Nominations Reform

  Today New Hampshire will hold its primary. New Hampshire's 12 delegates are up for grabs. These delegates will be allocated proportionately, and not by a winner-take-all system of allocation.

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• Texas Redistricting in the Hands of the Supreme Court Yet Again

  • Posted: January 9, 2012
  • Author(s): Lindsey Needham
  • Categories: Home, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Redistricting

  Today, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for three cases pertaining to Texas redistricting. In recent decades, Texas has been unable to pass a congressional redistricting plan with paying a visit to the high court. With a redistricting process that forces partisan interests to battle racial minority communities for power over a district's single seat, there is little surprise regarding these recurring controversies.

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