Content Categorized with "FairVote"
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Ocean State Un-Vetoes Electoral Reform
- Posted: January 7, 2010
- Author(s): Paul Fidalgo
- Categories: U.S. Senate Vacancy Elections, Universal Voter Registration, FairVote
This past Tuesday, FairVote and its friends in America's most wee state were very happy, as the state legislature reversed the vetoes of two bills close to our hearts: pre-registration and U.S. Senate vacancies.
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Oakland Set to Use IRV in 2010
- Posted: January 6, 2010
- Categories: Home, Instant Runoff Voting, FairVote
The Oakland (CA) City Council voted on January 5 to adopt instant runoff voting for its mayoral and council elections in 2010, enacting a ballot measure won with 69% and foregoing its traditional low-turnout June elections. Alameda County's elections department deserves great credit for preparing to use IRV, as does the New America Foundation, Caliornians for Electoral Reform and an impressive array of community groups. Berkeley is expected to join Bay Area neighbors Oakland and San Francisco in IRV elections this November.
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Rhode Island Enacts FairVote-Backed Electoral Reforms
- Posted: January 6, 2010
- Categories: Home, U.S. Senate Vacancy Elections, FairVote
Rhode Island's state legislature on January 5 voted by overwhelming margins to override gubernatorial vetoes of measures establishing voter pre-registration for 16 and 17-year-olds and popular elections to fill all U.S. Senate vacancies. FairVote Rhode Island was the catalyst for these important reform victories.
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Oakland OKs IRV
- Posted: January 6, 2010
- Author(s): Paul Fidalgo
- Categories: Home, FairVote
The city council of Oakland, California overwhelmingly voted on January 5 to adopt instant runoff voting for its mayoral and council elections next year. Voting 6-2, the council is enacting a 2006 voter-approved mandate to implement the reform, a measure that won 69% support.
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FairVote Hopes We Can Count on Your Support
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Utah Commission Endorses Automatic Registration
- Posted: December 9, 2009
- Categories: Home, Universal Voter Registration, FairVote
The Governor's Commission on Strengthening Utah's Democracy today unanimously recommended FairVote.
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Youth Voter Pre-Registration News
- Posted: November 30, 2009
- Author(s): Adam Fogel
- Categories: Home, Universal Voter Registration, FairVote
The past few weeks have brought us a lot of voter registration news that shows that we are moving closer and closer to a system of universal voter registration.
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International Snapshot: Japan 2009
- Posted: November 24, 2009
- Author(s): Rob Richie, Pauline Lejeune
- Categories: Research & Analysis, Asia and Oceania, International Elections, FairVote, All Reports
The Japanese parliamentary elections in August 30, 2009 marked a turning point in Japan’s political history. Since 1955, Japan has been dominated by one party, with the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) as the governing party for all but 11 months. But in these elections the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) defeated the LDP, winning 308 seats to 109 for the LDP in the 480-seat House of Representatives.
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Suffragium Ex Machina
- Posted: November 12, 2009
- Categories: Research & Analysis, FairVote
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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R.I. Gov. Thinks 0.0001% Turnout for U.S. Senate Elections is Just Fine
- Posted: November 10, 2009
- Author(s): Paul Fidalgo
- Categories: Home, U.S. Senate Vacancy Elections, FairVote
Shocking no one but disappointing many, Rhode Island's Gov. Carcieri vetoed legislation that would have mandated a special election in the case of a vacancy in one of the state's U.S. Senate seats.