Content Categorized with "Research & Analysis"
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Iraq’s 2010 Parliamentary Election - Part 2: A Refined PR System to Improve Representation
- Posted: March 5, 2010
- Author(s): Pauline Lejeune
- Categories: Home, Democracy SOS Project, Research & Analysis, Proportional Voting, FairVote
This Sunday, Iraq will elect its parliament for the third time in five years. For the first time, they will use an “open” list proportional system, which is seen as a major step to cement Iraqi democracy.
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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: Home, Research & Analysis, Choice Voting/Proportional Representation, Proportional Voting, FairVote
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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International Snapshot: Japan 2009
- Posted: November 24, 2009
- Author(s): Rob Richie, Pauline Lejeune
- Categories: Research & Analysis, Proportional Voting, 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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Voting Equipment and the Way Elections Are Run
- Posted: November 7, 2009
- Author(s): Rob Richie
- Publication: New York Times
- Categories: Research & Analysis, FairVote
Rob Richie's letter to the editor on the dangers of the consolidation of the voting equipment industry -- placed in contrast to one of the leaders of that same industry.
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Germany’s federal parliament: fair and accurate representation
- Posted: September 30, 2009
- Author(s): Pauline Lejeune
- Categories: Home, Research & Analysis, Proportional Voting
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Report: Widely Used Voting Machine Missed 0.4% of Ballots
- Posted: August 18, 2009
- Categories: Research & Analysis, FairVote
Proving the value of transparency and redundancy in ballot-counting, an independent rescanning of ballots cast in the May 5, 2009 elections in Aspen (CO) showed that the voting machines used for the initial vote count entirely missed 11 (0.4%) out of the 2,544 ballots cast. The ballots were initially counted with Pitkin County's Premier (formerly Diebold) AccuVote optical scan voting machines, one of the most widely used optical scanning systems in the country. The error was discovered when TrueBallot, Inc., employed under contract with the city of Aspen to re-tally the elections at a central location, rescanned all ballots using a commercial off-the-shelf scanner and discovered the erroneously disregarded 11 ballots.
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Get 'Em (Ready to Vote) While They're Young
- Posted: May 26, 2009
- Author(s): David Segal, Paul Fidalgo
- Categories: Research & Analysis, Universal Voter Registration, FairVote, All Reports
A movement is growing within the states to swing the doors of our democracy wide open, encouraging and facilitating the active participation of young people in the electoral process.
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Universal Voter Registration: An International Perspective
- Posted: April 21, 2009
- Author(s): Eve Robert
- Categories: Research & Analysis, Universal Voter Registration, FairVote, All Reports
The United States is one of the few democracies in the world where the government does not take any responsibility in registering its citizens. This one-of-a-kind, self-initiated voter registration process acts as a major barrier to voter turnout and leads to often inaccurate voter rolls.
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Delegating Democracy
- Posted: April 3, 2008
- Author(s): Rob Richie and Adam Fogel
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, Research & Analysis, Proportional Voting, FairVote, Presidential Nominations Reform, All Reports
Parties have great opportunities to review and improve their election systems by incorporating reforms that give more voters an equal voice and an equal vote. From representative delegate allocation regimes to ranked choice voting and expanded suffrage rights, a political party's nomination process can be a true laboratory of democracy.