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E-Newsletter May 28, 2009
- Posted: May 28, 2009
- Categories: FairVote Reformer E-Newsletters, FairVote
Features:
- IRV Debuts in Two New Cities
- Youth Voting Measures Take Off in the States
- Voting Rights Events Coming in June
- National Popular Vote: Legislative Wins & Media
- Proportional Voting: Problem Solver
- In Memoriam
- More Highlights from the Past Month
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Get 'Em (Ready to Vote) While They're Young
- Posted: May 26, 2009
- Categories: Universal Voter Registration, FairVote
As a key element in what is welcome progress toward universal voter registration, 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. From education, to access, to advance registration, more and more legislators and public officials are doing their part to invite young people into the process and kick start habits that can last a lifetime.
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Good Things Come to Those Who Rank
- Posted: May 14, 2009
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, FairVote
Instant runoff voting is a ranked choice voting system that allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference. Recommended by Robert's Rules of Order and used in a rapidly growing number of elections here and abroad, it represents a major improvement over the usual plurality-based and two-round systems of voting. It protects majority rule, eliminates the need for costly extra elections and all but eradicates the potential chaos of "spoiler" candidacies. But beyond its clearly established benefits, we are seeing anecdotal evidence that suggests that IRV has a positive effect on the influence of big money on elections, and mitigating the temptation for campaigns to "go negative."
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E-Newsletter April 30, 2009
- Posted: April 30, 2009
- Categories: FairVote Reformer E-Newsletters, National Popular Vote, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, FairVote
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Michael Steele's RNC Win Helps Show how Instant Runoff Voting Works: Ranked voting methods abound in America culture
- Posted: February 5, 2009
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, FairVote
Advocates of ranked choice voting methods like instant runoff voting and the choice voting method of proportional representation often confront claims that their proposals are “exotic”, even “un-American.”
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E-Newsletter February 4, 2009
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Senate Vacancies
- Posted: January 29, 2009
- Categories: FairVote
Wafting through the Winds of Change is the stench of 19th century political gamesmanship and cronyism: The undemocratic and undignified scrum among our country's political insiders -- to fill four prominent US Senate vacancies -- would have been familiar to Americans of 100-plus years past, when all Senators were appointed by the powerful.
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FairVote Testimony on Ideas for Local Reform
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E-Newsletter December 19, 2008
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E-Newsletter December 19, 2008
- Posted: December 19, 2008
- Categories: FairVote Reformer E-Newsletters, Cumulative Voting, FairVote