Content Categorized with "FairVote"
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IRV Moving Ahead
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The People's House?
- Posted: July 19, 2007
- Categories: FairVote
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The 2006 midterms were, we are told, a great change election. Countless incumbents were swept from power and control shifted from one party to another in both houses of Congress. Well, at least one part of that sentence is true. While the Democrats did wind up in control, over 94% of incumbents were re-elected. The irony, of course, is that knocking off less than 6% of incumbents is considered remarkable. It sounds big compared to the less than 2% of incumbents who had lost in every election since 1996, but it still means that most incumbents had little to fear.
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E-Newsletter July 14, 2007
- Posted: July 14, 2007
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote Reformer E-Newsletters, National Popular Vote, D.C. Voting Rights, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Research & Analysis, FairVote
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Electoral College is #1 All-Time Constitutional Target
- Posted: July 12, 2007
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
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The framers of the Constitution wisely ensured that the act of making changes to our nation’s founding document would be difficult, time consuming, and only possible with the assent of super-majorities of both Congress, and states. Certainly, to make such an attempt would mean that the issue at hand was of astounding importance.
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International Snapshot: Scotland 2007
- Posted: July 11, 2007
- Author(s): Dan Tessler
- Categories: Europe, Research & Analysis, International Elections, FairVote, All Reports
On May 3, 2007, Scottish voters used two proportional voting systems simultaneously: for the first time ever, choice voting (or the single transferable vote) for local councils, and once again, mixed member proportional voting for the Scottish Parliament. The local council elections saw increased participation and broadly representative results. Despite the first-time use of choice voting alongside a completely different voting system, error rates were, on average, remarkably low. The MMP elections ensured proportionality in seat shares and arguably prevented a wrong-winner result. There was early controversy over error rates allegedly around 10%, but actual error rates were lower. Later research moreover confirmed that voter error was due to critical ballot design flaws.
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California Senate Committee Passes IRV Bills
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Why is My D Voting Like an R?
- Posted: July 5, 2007
- Categories: FairVote
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Party label does not always determine how a member of Congress will vote on a controversial hot-button issue, but when the party line is breached there is usually a compelling reason. While there can be myriad reasons a legislator votes one way or another, there is a strong correlation between lawmakers who vote against the party line on a divisive issue and the partisanship of the state or district they represent. (State or district partisanship is determined, for our purposes, by the share of votes won by a party’s presidential nominee. A state like Alabama, for example, has a 61.6% Republican state partisanship because that is the percentage won by President Bush in 2004.)
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State Panels Study Fairer Voting Systems
- Posted: June 28, 2007
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, FairVote
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Electoral College Won't Keep Bloomberg Down
- Posted: June 28, 2007
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
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Do you think the Electoral College might be Bloomberg’s biggest obstacle in a race for the White House? Think again.
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Rhode Island Youth Voter Advance Registration Waits for Governor's Signature
- Posted: June 27, 2007
- Categories: FairVote
Last week the Rhode Island state legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill sponsored by Rep. Edwin R. Pacheco (HR 6215) that allows 16 and 17-year-olds to pre-register to vote, making them automatically eligible once they turn 18. The bill was passed without much fanfare at the last minute before the legislative session ended, but pass it did, and now it is up to Governor Donald Carcieri to sign it into law.