Entries from February, 2010

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• FairVote testifies to Maryland Senate Committee

  • Posted: February 26, 2010
  • Author(s): Pauline Lejeune
  • Categories: Home, Learning Democracy, Reforms, Universal Voter Registration, FairVote

  Yesterday, the Maryland Senate Education, Health & Environmental Committee held a public hearing on several election bills. FairVote’s Right to Vote Director Adam Fogel testified in favor of two of the bills that are sponsored by Sen. Jamie Raskin (D-20):
  -    SB 292, which will set a uniform voter registration age of 16
  -    SB 293, which will establish a permanent absentee ballot list.

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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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• Remembering Karla Irvine: Fair Elections and Fair Housing Advocate

  • Posted: February 23, 2010
  • Author(s): Amy Ngai
  • Categories: Home, Choice Voting/Proportional Representation, Proportional Voting

  On February 19^th, the proponents of election reform and fair government lost an outspoken and fearless advocate. Karla Irvine, a founding member of FairVote, was 76 years old.

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• Cleaning up politics: the UK to use alternative voting?

  • Posted: February 10, 2010
  • Author(s): Pauline Lejeune
  • Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, Home, Choice Voting/Proportional Representation, Proportional Voting

  In the context of major distrust by British citizens of their almost 800 year-old democracy and their politicians, Gordon Brown proposed on February 2nd, in a speech at the Institute for Public Policy Research, to get rid of the UK’s “first-past-the-post” voting system.

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• Setting the Record Straight on Universal Voter Registration

  • Posted: February 3, 2010
  • Author(s): Adam Fogel
  • Categories: Home, Universal Voter Registration, FairVote

  Right to Vote director Adam Fogel sets the record straight about universal voter registration.

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