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Oscar Blog Focuses on New Instant Runoff Voting System
- Posted: January 28, 2010
- Categories: Choice Voting, Home, Fair Elections, Instant Runoff Voting, FairVote
Hollywood meets election reform as FairVote launches a new blog focused on the Academy Awards' new instant runoff voting system for Best Picture. "Oscar Votes 1-2-3" (http://oscarvotes123.com) is the nation's primary website to analyze the Oscars from the perspective of its newly-adopted preferential voting system for Best Picture. The site will also have information about the similar "choice voting" system of preferential voting used for decades for most Oscar nominations.
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E-Newsletter January 28, 2010
- Posted: January 28, 2010
- Categories: E-Newsletters
Features:
- Award-worthy Reform: IRV in California, Utah and Overseas
- Wave of Victories in the Ocean State
- Dubious Democracy is the Diagnosis / Port Chester Gets Proportional
- Lessons from Nebraska: That Pesky Electoral Vote
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Special Update: 2010 Opens with Reform Victories
- Posted: January 7, 2010
- Categories: E-Newsletters
A quick news brief on big victories in Rhode Island, advancement of IRV in California, and other encouraging signs from across the spectrum.
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Rhode Island Legislature Overrides Electoral Reform Vetoes
- Posted: January 6, 2010
- Categories: Home, Universal Voter Registration, Fair Access to Participation, Youth Preregistration Fact Sheet, Elections for U.S. Senate Vacancies
The Rhode Island State Senate and House of Representatives yesterday voted to override two gubernatorial vetoes of landmark electoral reform legislation, thereby enacting FairVote-initiated measures allowing voter pre-registration for 16 and 17-year-olds and mandating popular elections to fill all U.S. Senate vacancies.
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E-Newsletter December 17, 2009
- Posted: December 17, 2009
- Categories: E-Newsletters
Features:
- Fair Elections: Instant Runoff Voting is a Hit in Twin Cities, in Media, on Campus and in the UK / See National Popular Vote Forum on Video
- Fair Representation: FairVote Oversees Voter Education Plan in New York Cumulative Voting Election / Choice Voting in Action in Minneapolis/Illinois Putback Amendment Gains Support
- Fair Access to Participation: FairVote Makes Case for Public Voting Equipment in New York Times / New Progress for Voter Pre-Registration/Contact Virginia Governor to Secure Voting Rights
- FairVote News: Visit our New Website and Put Your Name on our Map!
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Suffragium Ex Machina
- Posted: November 12, 2009
- Categories: Research & Analysis, Innovative 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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FairVote on Election 2009: Pundits Rush to Errant Judgment
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E-Newsletter October 29, 2009
- Posted: October 29, 2009
- Categories: FairVote, E-Newsletters
Features:
- Better Elections on the Ballot on November 3rd
- IRV in Major Media, New Movement in Massachusetts
- California Pre-registration Victory and Progress on Fair Access in the U.S. House
- Fair Representation: New congressional legislation, state reform drive and voting rights win
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E-Newsletter September 30, 2009
- Posted: September 30, 2009
- Categories: FairVote, E-Newsletters
Features:
- A Big Month for IRV
- A World of Fair Representation
- Advances for Voting Rights in DC and NC
- National Recognition for Transparent Elections
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Blagojevich "Tell-All" Book Shows You Can't Play Appointment Games in U.S. House Elections