Catch up on the week’s electoral reform news with our round up of folks across the country writing and talking about FairVote’s reform vision.

Reform Roundup: September 16th, 2016 Catch up on the week’s electoral reform news with our round up of folks across the country writing and talking about FairVote’s reform vision:

Catch up on the week’s electoral reform news with our round up of folks across the country writing and talking about FairVote’s reform vision.

Nevada could be the first state whose legislators implement such a system when they convene early next year. Since 2013 there has been a quiet effort to end Nevada’s closed primary system. The Nevada Election Modernization and Reform Act would drastically improve elections in Nevada.

Catch up on the latest in electoral reform news with our round up of folks across the country writing and talking about FairVote’s reform vision.

OpaVote is a website for running elections online, and in this blog post we interview, Jeff O'Neill, the founder of OpaVote and a former FairVote legal intern in 2003. If you are part of an organization that holds elections using ranked choice voting, then you may find OpaVote a useful service for running your election.

Every four years, the Democratic and Republican parties’ national conventions draw an enormous amount of public attention as the parties select their presidential candidates and set their direction for the next four years. However, much less attention is paid to the smaller state and local conventions that are also held in the leadup to the national convention. Each of these conventions has its own rules, including the rules governing how the nominees to be selected at the convention will be chosen, and how the various party officials will be elected.

It’s July in an election year which means that, among other things, it’s convention time. In the lead up to the conventions, parties are in a flurry of preparation, trying to get every element of their respective events together in time for the opening gavel.

The latest roundup of press covering FairVote's reform vision, including pieces in TIME Magazine, Newsweek, In These Times, and The New York Times.

The New York City Council took a step forward in improving elections by including the adoption of ranked choice voting in its legislative agenda for the New York State Legislature. The City Council wrote in favor of legislation proposed by Assemblyman Brian Kavanaugh that would allow New York City to implement RCV for citywide primary elections.