Content Categorized with "Fair Voting/Proportional Representation"
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The day FairVote decided to vote on lunch
- Posted: April 27, 2010
- Author(s): Pauline Lejeune
- Categories: Research & Analysis, Instant Runoff Voting, Home, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, FairVote
Today, we could not decide on what to order and realizing that we are the voting system experts, we thought it would be great to cast votes before making any decision. Different systems can get different winners and this was a great opportunity to test their fairness and impact.
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French Regional elections: With "proportional" system, the devil is in the details...
- Posted: April 27, 2010
- Author(s): Pauline Lejeune
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, Home, Europe, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Elections Worldwide
On March 14th and 21st, French voters elected their 26 regional councils. A main point of interest, beyond the results, is how the semi-proportional system used for the regional elections distorts the electoral dynamics, and how well represented women are.
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"Presidential Elections" in Cyprus: Part 2
- Posted: April 17, 2010
- Author(s): Amanda Naldjieff
- Categories: Research & Analysis, Instant Runoff Voting, Home, Europe, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Elections Worldwide
"And the Candidates are… :: drum roll ::"
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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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Port Chester Will Use New Voting System
- Posted: March 9, 2010
- Categories: Fair Voting/Proportional Representation
On June 15th, 2010 the Village of Port Chester, New York will become the first community in the state to elect its’ representative body through a semi-proportional system of elections known as “cumulative voting”. The village’s six seat Board of Trustees, as in the past, will be elected through an at-large election. Through cumulative voting, voters continue to have the same number of votes as seats, but will now have the freedom to distribute their votes as they please, including casting more than one vote for a favorite candidate.
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Iraq’s 2010 Parliamentary Election - Part 1: Chronicles of a Struggle for Democracy
- Posted: February 24, 2010
- Author(s): Pauline Lejeune
- Categories: Research & Analysis, Home, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Middle East and Africa, FairVote, Elections Worldwide
FairVote starts a series of comprehensive blog posts about the Iraqi 2010 parliamentary elections, focusing on how Iraq has been working on building an inclusive fair voting system by relying on proportional representation (PR) instead of winner-take-all.
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Remembering Karla Irvine: Fair Elections and Fair Housing Advocate
- Posted: February 23, 2010
- Author(s): Amy Ngai
- Categories: Home, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation
On February 19th, the proponents of election reform and fair government lost an outspoken and fearless advocate. Karla Irvine, a founding member of FairVote, was 76 years old.
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Cleaning up politics: the UK to use alternative voting?
- Posted: February 10, 2010
- Author(s): Pauline Lejeune
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, Home, Europe, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Elections Worldwide
In the context of major distrust by British citizens of their almost 800 year-old democracy and their politicians, Gordon Brown proposed on February 2nd, in a speech at the Institute for Public Policy Research, to get rid of the UK’s “first-past-the-post” voting system.
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For Oscar Nominations, 'Choice' is Clear
- Posted: January 29, 2010
- Author(s): Paul Fidalgo
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, Home, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, FairVote
We here at FairVote are probably a little more interested in the Oscars than most think tanks in DC. Sure, we like movies as much as anyone else, but there's one aspect of the awards that particularly sparks our interest: the Academy's voting system!
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Oscar Blog Focuses on New Instant Runoff Voting System
- Posted: January 28, 2010
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, Home, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, FairVote
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.