Rob Richie wrote this article for YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas with practical actions. Rob has been executive director of FairVote (formerly the Center for Voting and Democracy) since its founding in 1992. He is co-author of Every Vote Equal: A State-Based Plan For Electing The President By National Popular Vote and Reflecting All of Us. First published at http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/in-massachusetts-a-victory-for-fair-elections