Content Categorized with "Instant Runoff Voting"
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It's Time to Bring Majority Rule to the American Election Process
- Posted: July 5, 2009
- Author(s): Blair Bobier
- Publication: Richmond Times-Dispatch
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, FairVote
The results of Virginia's recent Democratic gubernatorial primary illustrate how winner-take-all elections can produce winners who don't receive the majority of the vote. IRV ensures election winners have majority support. -
Special interests upset with instant runoff voting in San Francisco - and broader lessons
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FairVote chair Krist Novoselic makes key point about rights of association in candidacy
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Instant Runoff Elections are a Vote for Civility
- Posted: June 17, 2009
- Author(s): Rob Richie
- Publication: Yes! Magazine
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, FairVote
Fair Vote's Executive Director, Rob Richie, explains how IRV is greatly benefiting the election process of Burlington, Vermont. -
Minneapolis makes way for new voting system: For the first time, residents will vote for city positions using ranked-choice voting this fall.
- Posted: June 16, 2009
- Publication: University of Minnesota Daily
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, FairVote
FairVote Minnesota Director Jeanne Massey quoted in article on the implemenatation of IRV in Minneapolis. -
Instant runoff voting in Australia: Guest blogger Ben Raue
- Posted: June 16, 2009
- Author(s): Rob Richie
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, Asia and Oceania, Elections Worldwide
Former Australian Greens candidate Ben Raue writes on Australia's use of an instant runoff voting system in state and federal legislative elections, and the increased legitimacy and indepdence that IRV can provide to third parties.
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Alternative Voting Remedies towards Increasing Minority Representation?
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Grunge party politics
- Posted: June 14, 2009
- Author(s): Paul Jacob
- Publication: Townhall.com
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, FairVote
FairVote Board Chair Krist Novoselic is running for County Clerk in Wahkiakum Co, WA to awareness of problems with Washington's open primary system and support for IRV. -
Slamdunk win in Minnesota Supreme Court highlights big week for instant runoff voting
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Don't call Pierce County's ranked choice voting weird just because it's different
- Posted: June 11, 2009
- Publication: Tacoma News Tribune
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, FairVote
Peter Callaghan of the Tacoma News Tribune explains that although many Pierce County residents may think that their recently imp