Content Categorized with "FairVote"
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FairVote testifies to Maryland Senate Committee
- Posted: February 26, 2010
- Author(s): Pauline Lejeune
- Categories: Home, Learning Democracy, Reforms, Universal Voter Registration, FairVote
Yesterday, the Maryland Senate Education, Health & Environmental Committee held a public hearing on several election bills. FairVote’s Right to Vote Director Adam Fogel testified in favor of two of the bills that are sponsored by Sen. Jamie Raskin (D-20):
- SB 292, which will set a uniform voter registration age of 16
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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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E-Newsletter February 24, 2010
- Posted: February 24, 2010
- Categories: FairVote Reformer E-Newsletters, FairVote
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
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FairVote Signs Voting Equipment Letter
- Posted: February 18, 2010
- Categories: Home, Democracy SOS Project, FairVote
Last week, FairVote signed onto a letter to the Department of Justice advising against allowing the largest voting equipment vendor, ES&S, from buying its next largest competitor, Diebold's Premier Elections Solutions, Inc. FairVote has been a long-time supporter of transparency and accountability in the voting equipment industry and believes that states and municipalities should have a "public option" for purchasing equipment. FairVote allies Common Cause and the Advancement Project were among the signatories to the letter.
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Setting the Record Straight on Universal Voter Registration
- Posted: February 3, 2010
- Author(s): Adam Fogel
- Categories: Home, Universal Voter Registration, FairVote
Right to Vote director Adam Fogel sets the record straight about universal voter registration.
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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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Portland Charter Commission Recommends IRV
- Posted: January 29, 2010
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, Home, FairVote
This November, the voters of Portland (ME) will get the chance to decide if they would like to use instant runoff voting to elect their mayor, after a special Charter Commission recommended IRV by an overwhelming margin of 9 to 1. Eight elections since 2004 have yielded only plurality winners who have taken office with less than 48% of the vote. If Portland enacts IRV, the voters of Portland will begin ensuring majority-supported winners beginning in 2012.
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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.
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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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IRV on its Way to San Leandro
- Posted: January 20, 2010
- Categories: Home, Instant Runoff Voting, FairVote
The city of San Leandro (CA) will join its fellow Bay Area cities Oakland and San Francisco in adopting instant runoff voting. On January 19, the San Leandro city council voted 5-2 in favor of IRV, in keeping with a 2000 advisory election in which 66% of voters declared that they wanted IRV as an option to make sure office holders were elected by majority. The nearby city of Berkeley looks to be next.