Entries from January, 2013
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Czech Republic Holds First Popular Election for President
- Posted: January 30, 2013
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy, Sara Helmi
- Categories: Europe, International Elections, Elections Worldwide
On January 26, Czech citizens had the chance to directly elect their president for the first time since the breakup of Czechoslovakia in 1993. They used a national popular vote with a majority runoff to do it.
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Israeli Election Results Show Responsiveness of Proportional System
- Posted: January 24, 2013
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Home, Middle East and Africa, International Elections, Elections Worldwide
As Tuesday's Israeli elections show, proportional representation systems guarantee that voters can change their government when they are unsatisfied with its performance.
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President Obama’s First Four Cabinet Picks: So Male and So Pale
- Posted: January 23, 2013
- Author(s): Patricia Hart
As President Obama's second-term Cabinet takes shape, the gender and ethnic composition of his team is drawing criticism from the Center of American Women in Politics, the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda Coalition and New York Democrat Charles Rangel, one of the longest serving black members of Congress. With white men nominated to the first four positions (secretary of defense, secretary of state, secretary of the Treasury and CIA director), it's time to start asking for a government that looks like America.
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Time to Change an Unpopular Vote
- Posted: January 18, 2013
- Author(s): Andrea Levien
- Categories: Presidential Elections, National Popular Vote
Once again, a Gallup poll has found that a large majority of Americans, both Democrat and Republican, would prefer a popular vote for president. It's time for state legislatures to take notice and pass the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
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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.