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E-Newsletter August 1, 2006
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Instant Runoff Voting: Two Major Advances in 24 Hours
- Posted: July 20, 2006
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, FairVote
Instant runoff voting (IRV), the ranked choice voting method that generates majority winners in a single round of voting, has garnered rapidly rising support this year. On July 18, the city council of Oakland (CA) voted 6-2 to place IRV on the November 7th ballot, replacing their June primary and November runoff with one high turnout majority election in November.
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Instant runoff voting passes North Carolina Senate
- Posted: July 19, 2006
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, FairVote
The North Carolina State Senate passed a bipartisan bill today to set up a pilot program for instant runoff voting (IRV) and to implement IRV for statewide elections to fill judicial office vacancies. The bill will now return to the House, which passed a similar bill in 2005, in order to reconcile the two versions.
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Today Bipartisan Bill to Reform Redistricting
- Posted: July 18, 2006
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, FairVote
FairVote and Members of Congress will hold a press conference today for the Fairness and Independence in Redistrict Act, a bipartisan bill introduced in both the House and Senate to establish nationwide redistricting standards. The renewed push for legislation comes in the wake of the Supreme Court decision on the Texas gerrymandering case of 2003, which handed responsibility for political reform to Congress.
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City Council Expected to Endorse an Early Primary for Washington, DC
- Posted: July 10, 2006
- Categories: FairVote
FairVote recently released the report, "Outside Looking In: How Shutting Washington DC out of the Presidential Primary Process Hurts Black and Urban America." The report details how the potential DNC move would be of major importance not just for Washington, but for black and urban voters across the country. Those two demographics are among the Democrats' most loyal constituencies, and moving them to the forefront of the nomination process would almost certainly change the political landscape for 2008 and beyond.
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FairVote's John Anderson: Let's Bring Young Adults into our Democracy
- Posted: July 7, 2006
- Categories: FairVote
FairVote’s chair John B. Anderson, the former presidential candidate and Republican U.S. House Member, urged Rhode Island governor Donald Carcieri to sign HB 8022. Rep. Edwin Pacheco’s legislation to allow young adults who “pre-register” to vote upon turning 16 be automatically registered to vote when they turn 18.
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Come As You Are : Nirvana's Krist Novoselic to Speak on Election Reform
- Posted: June 30, 2006
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, FairVote
Krist Novoselic, former-bassist of the legendary rock band Nirvana and leading political activist, will speak at the Libertarian Party National Convention. The convention theme is Uniting Voters.'
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E-Newsletter June 30, 2006
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The Day After LULAC: What's Next for Redistricting Reform?
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California Senate Elections Committee Approves National Popular Vote Bill
- Posted: June 28, 2006
- Categories: FairVote
Legislation to implement the National Popular Vote plan, a multi-state agreement to establish a national popular vote for President, continued moving forward in California today with approval by the Senate Elections Committee by a vote of 3-1. AB 2948, authored by Assemblyman Tom Umberg (D -Anaheim), already passed the California Assembly on May 30. The legislation would enact the “Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote.”