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An electoral reform worth considering
- Posted: March 16, 2009
- Author(s): Frank Askin
- Publication: New Jersey Law Journal
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Advocates for the adoption of instant runoff voting in New Jersey, and for the New Jersey Senate to adopt Senate Joint Resolution 43, which would create a commission to study the issue. -
Local Briefs
- Posted: March 16, 2009
- Publication: Aspen Times
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Aspen will use instant runoff voting for the first time in May. -
Council Looks At Changing Election Method
- Posted: March 13, 2009
- Author(s): Kendall Jones
- Publication: MyNC
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
The Cary Town Council held a hearing to decide whether or not to keep its instant runoff voting election method. -
Instant runoff elections
- Posted: March 13, 2009
- Author(s): Adam Kleppner
- Publication: The Caledonian Record
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Letter to the editor urging the expansion of instant runoff voting beyond Burlington to statewide elections in Vermont. -
Notwithstanding budget crisis, R.I. mustn't cut civics position
- Posted: March 12, 2009
- Author(s): Matt Sledge
- Publication: Providence Journal
- Categories: Learning Democracy, FairVote
FairVote's Matt Sledge explains why Rhode Island should not cut funding for civics education. -
Instant runoff voting just makes sense
- Posted: March 12, 2009
- Author(s): David Larson
- Publication: Des Moines Register
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Letter to the Editor in the Des Moines Register defending instant runoff voting against anti-IRV Op-ed. -
Matt Sledge: Notwithstanding budget crisis, R.I. mustn't cut civics position
- Posted: March 12, 2009
- Author(s): Matt Sledge
- Publication: The Providence Journal
- Categories: FairVote
RHODE ISLAND and America in general are in a fiscal crisis that also seems to be a crisis of government. In response, the Rhode Island Board of Regents plans to cut the sole statewide civics-education position, along with funding for civics professio -
What Are We, Stupid?
- Posted: March 11, 2009
- Author(s): Shay Totten
- Publication: Seven Days
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Seven Days writer Shay Totten takes a look at Burlington's recent instant runoff voting election. -
Senate vacancy bill OK'd in House
- Posted: March 11, 2009
- Author(s): Karen Lee Ziner
- Publication: The Providence Journal
- Categories: FairVote
PROVIDENCE -- A bill that would strip the governor of his power to appoint a replacement in the event of a midyear U.S. Senate vacancy was passed by the House yesterday in a 64-to-6 vote and sent to the Senate. -
Instant runoff voting could appear on November ballot
- Posted: March 11, 2009
- Author(s): Brandon Stahl
- Publication: Duluth News Tribune
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
A petition to put instant runoff voting on the November ballot in Duluth, MN is making headway.