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Why states should adopt the National Popular Vote plan for president
- Posted: May 17, 2009
- Author(s): Rob Richie
- Publication: San Diego Union-Tribune
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
FairVote's Rob Richie writes that the Electoral College deepens political inequality, and explains why the National Popular Vote plan is our best opportunity to ensure that every vote for president is equally valued. -
High schoolers get a lesson in voting
- Posted: May 16, 2009
- Author(s): Michelle Stuckey
- Publication: The Gainesville Sun
- Categories: Universal Voter Registration, FairVote
High school voter registration efforts have increased and improved in light of Florida's uniform voter registration age of 16 years-old. -
City attorney: IRV vote must wait
- Posted: May 15, 2009
- Author(s): John Briggs
- Publication: Burlington Free Press
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Article on Burlington City Attorney's decision that any attempt to repeal instant runoff voting must come during a regularly scheduled election, not during a special election. -
Give Ranked Choice a Chance
- Posted: May 15, 2009
- Author(s): Erik Connell
- Publication: The Melon
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Op-ed in Tacoma blog The Melon by FairVote Democracy Fellow Erik Connell on why Pierce County residents should vote to keep ranked choice voting this November. -
Cary's mistake
- Posted: May 14, 2009
- Author(s): Carol Everett
- Publication: News and Observer
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Letter to the Editor by Cary, NC resident Carol Everett expressing her disappointment in the Town Council's decision not to continue to participate in the state's instant runoff voting pilot. -
Let's Make Every Vote Count
- Posted: May 14, 2009
- Author(s): Katrina vanden Heuvel
- Publication: The Nation
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of the Nation magazine, highlights FairVote's research in an important piece on the "broad support" growing in the states for the National Popular Vote plan to elect the president. -
No more appointed senators
- Posted: May 14, 2009
- Author(s): David Segal
- Publication: Baltimore Sun
- Categories: FairVote
FairVote's David Segal argues for an end to the filling of Senate vacancies by appointment, and supports a national movement to have those vacancies filled through democratic elections. -
Representative Democracy: Two Steps Forward
- Posted: May 13, 2009
- Author(s): John Burbank
- Publication: The Daily Herald
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
The executive director of the Economic Opportunity Institute heralds the passage of the National Popular Vote bill in Washington state. -
The Supreme Court's Hostility to the Voting Rights Act
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Instant runoff voting gets Supreme Court hearing
- Posted: May 13, 2009
- Author(s): Curtis Gilbert
- Publication: Minnesota Public Radio
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Coverage of the Minnesota Supreme Court case on ranked choice voting's constitutionality.