New Lessons from Problems with Approval Voting in Practice
Posted on What's New Rob Richie on December 14, 2016
Ranked choice voting (RCV, also called instant runoff voting) is a proven way to open up elections to give voters more voice and greater choice. Yet there is a persistent group of online critics who espouse other voting methods and attribute to them a range of untested virtues. Our concerns focus on viability and workability.
Read morePolls Close in NC, OH, and WV: Our Monopoly Politics Analysis
Posted on What's New Rob Richie on November 08, 2016

Polls Close in NC, OH, and WV: Our Monopoly Politics Analysis
Read morePolls Close in First 6 States: Our Monopoly Politics Analysis
Posted on What's New Rob Richie on November 08, 2016
Votes vs. Seats in the People's House
Posted on What's New Rob Richie, Drew Penrose on November 08, 2016

Tonight, we can say with confidence that Republicans will maintain their majority in the House of Representatives, whether they win more votes or not. In addition, there will likely be multiple states in which more voters vote for one party, yet the other party wins more seats.
Read moreVotePact: Do It Yourself Voting Reform
Posted on What's New Rob Richie on September 13, 2016

FairVote profiles an idea from Sam Husseini of VotePact.org, who agreed to sit down with us and explain his plan.
Read moreCorrecting Washington Post on Presidential Partisanship Trends
Posted on What's New Rob Richie on September 06, 2016

The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza in his "Monday Fix" political column writes that "Minnesota and Wisconsin are getting slightly more Republican with each passing presidential election, but it is a very slow change." This isn't true, actually, and a good reminder of why the National Popular Vote plan for president is so important.
Read moreThe Competition Problem is Real: A Response to FiveThirtyEight, Part 1
Posted on What's New Rob Richie, Stephen Beban on August 29, 2016

Professors Hersh and Fraga’s analysis of electoral competition makes the case that “the picture is much rosier” than FairVote characterizes in calling one of our reports “dubious democracy.” But we stand firmly by our position. In this first post we examine the presidential elections and show that that levels of electoral competition in states are far from healthy. Without rose-tinted glasses, this conclusion is inescapable.
Read moreRob Richie and Gov. Howard Dean feature FairVote's reform vision on Freakonomics podcast
Posted on eblasts Rob Richie on August 05, 2016
Tracking the Candidates: Current Electoral College Rules Mean Most Americans Ignored
Posted on What's New Rob Richie, Peter Jarka-sellers on July 29, 2016

In the weeks since the California primary, when Hillary Clinton joined Donald Trump in becoming her party’s presumptive nominee for president, FairVote has tracked both candidates’ campaign appearances. FairVote’s similar analysis in 2012 showed just how much the candidates focus on swing states that might tip the election with our current Electoral College rules.
Read moreAbner Mikva, Fair Representation Voting Champion, Has Died
Posted on Quick News Rob Richie on July 05, 2016
Abner Mikva died on July 4th, our nation's Independence Day. Judge Mikva had a storied career, including time as a federal judge, Member of Congress and White House counsel.
Read more