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Time for National Popular Vote, Not Electoral College Rigging
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NRCC Targets Foreshadow Power of Partisanship in 2014 Elections
- Posted: January 18, 2013
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Home, Congressional Elections
The power of partisanship in governing outcomes had led Republicans to make their top seven targets the only Democrats representing a district were Barack Obama's 2008 presidential election trailed his national average by more than four percentage points.
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The Best Electoral College Stories of the 2012 Presidential Campaign
- Posted: January 15, 2013
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Home, National Popular Vote, Presidential Elections
With the campaign season behind us, this post revisits the news stories of the 2012 presidential campaign that best captured the the distortions and unfairness caused by the winner-take-all Electoral College system.
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Democrats' Edge in House Popular Vote Would Have Increased if All Seats Had Been Contested
- Posted: January 9, 2013
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Home, Congressional Elections
A new FairVote analysis suggests that if both parties had run candidates in all 435 districts in the U.S. House elections in 2012, the Democratic margin of victory in the popular vote would have been even greater than its edge in the raw vote - a further indication of the partisan skew existing in current congressional elections.
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Putin Orders Return to Parallel Electoral System for Russian Duma
- Posted: January 7, 2013
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy, Sara Helmi
- Categories: Europe, Home, International Elections, Elections Worldwide
Do not be fooled by Vladimir Putin's claims that the reintroduction of single-member, winner-take-all seats to the Russian Duma will be a step towards a fairer and freer democracy in Russia. It is instead a step towards the continuation of one-party rule.
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Who Needs to Fix That? We Do.
- Posted: January 7, 2013
- Author(s): Lizz Hudler
- Categories: Home, Right to Vote Amendment, Voting Rights, FairVote
When President Barack Obama paused in his victory speech, thanking voters for waiting in long lines to vote but noting 'we have to fix that', one might have assumed that reform would come from the top.
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Everything You Need to Know About Israeli Elections Before Election Day
- Posted: January 4, 2013
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Home, Middle East and Africa, International Elections, Elections Worldwide
Understanding the Israeli electoral process is not easy when coming from an American perspective, because Israeli elections are nothing like American elections. The election that will be held in Israel on January 22 will be different from the 2012 elections in the U.S. in almost every conceivable sense.
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Statewide Recounts Remain Scarce: Zero in 2012
- Posted: December 21, 2012
- Author(s): Mollie Hailey
- Categories: Home, National Popular Vote
There were no recounts out of more than 400 statewide elections in 2012. FairVote's research of all statewide general elections from 2000 to 2012 underscores how rarely such recounts take place and how little they affect victory margins. Post-election audits are a better way to uncover the kind of major fraud or error that might actually change an election outcome.
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When Barack Obama Was a Leader in Seeking Fair Voting Systems
- Posted: December 20, 2012
- Author(s): Drew Spencer, Rob Richie
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, Home, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Congressional Elections, FairVote
President Barack Obama has a lot on his mind these days, but the state of our democracy remains critical. Fortunately, judging by Obama's record in the Illinois Senate --where he was the prime sponsor of legislation to advance cumulative voting and instant runoff voting - we haven't had a president as informed about good ideas for taking on electoral reform since James Madison and the founding generation.
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It’s Not Just Gerrymandering: Fixing House Elections Demands End of Winner-Take-All Rules
- Posted: December 16, 2012
- Author(s): Rob Richie, Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Home, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Congressional Elections, Redistricting
This year's elections put a spotlight on the troubled nature of how we elect the House of Representatives, the alleged "people's house." But some of our smartest election experts don't seem to understand the root of the problems with House elections.