FairVote Media Round-up (6-8-18-edition)
Posted on What's New Myeisha Boyd on June 08, 2018

Read FairVote's Media Round-up to find out about what's happening in democracy today around #RankedChoiceVoting
Read moreLas Cruces becomes the second city in New Mexico to adopt ranked choice voting
Posted on Quick News Myeisha Boyd on June 05, 2018

Yesterday, New Mexico’s second largest city, Las Cruces, decided to follow in the steps of Santa Fe and adopt ranked choice voting (RCV) for municipal elections.
Read moreThe Supreme Court will soon rule on partisan gerrymandering
Posted on Quick News Myeisha Boyd on May 29, 2018

In recent piece for Salon, FairVote’s Senior Fellow David Daley takes a look at the two cases of partisan gerrymandering in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, Benisek v. Lamone and Gill v. Whitford.
Read moreSt. Louis Park moves to switch to ranked choice voting in city elections
Posted on Quick News Myeisha Boyd on May 17, 2018

The Minneapolis suburb's city council voted unanimously to change the city charter, which would allow voters to rank candidates by preference.
Read moreGerrymandering is getting worse… The Fair Representation Act could fix it
Posted on Quick News Myeisha Boyd on May 01, 2018

Drawing congressional district lines to favor a political party has existed since the first elections of our Republic. But hyper-partisanship of the process is white-hot right now, and the problem could only get worse.
Read moreSt. Louis Park could be the third city in Minnesota to adopt ranked choice voting
Posted on What's New Myeisha Boyd on April 17, 2018

Last fall Minnesota’s two largest cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul, held very successful ranked choice voting elections. Now, St. Louis Park could be the state’s next municipality to elect local candidates with RCV.
Read moreCanada’s Conservative Party used ranked choice voting to pick new leader
Posted on Quick News Myeisha Boyd on March 26, 2018

Canada’s most populated province, Ontario, recently used ranked choice voting (RCV) to determine the next leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative race.
Read moreCarnegie analysis: Fractured US democracy can be restored with electoral reforms like ranked choice voting
Posted on Quick News Myeisha Boyd on March 15, 2018

Recent Carnegie Endowment report outline several electoral changes including proportional representation and ranked choice voting that would go a long way in healing the nation’s broken politics.
Read moreOnly thing keeping Sarasota from a RCV election is state-certified voting software… and it’s coming
Posted on Quick News Myeisha Boyd on March 13, 2018

More than a decade ago, voters in Sarasota, Fla. overwhelmingly passed a ballot initiative approving the implementation of ranked choice voting with 77.6 percent supporting the measure.
Read moreReform news round-up 3/9/18
Posted on What's New Myeisha Boyd on March 09, 2018

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