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San Francisco Exit Poll Study Affirms Instant Runoff Voting Success
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Instant Runoff Voting: Two Major Advances in 24 Hours
- Posted: July 20, 2006
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Instant runoff voting (IRV), the ranked choice voting method that generates majority winners in a single round of voting, has garnered rapidly rising support this year. On July 18, the city council of Oakland (CA) voted 6-2 to place IRV on the November 7th ballot, replacing their June primary and November runoff with one high turnout majority election in November.
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Coast to Coast, Instant Runoff Voting Builds Support
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FairVote Radio: Breakfast Club
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Instant runoff voting passes North Carolina Senate
- Posted: July 19, 2006
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
The North Carolina State Senate passed a bipartisan bill today to set up a pilot program for instant runoff voting (IRV) and to implement IRV for statewide elections to fill judicial office vacancies. The bill will now return to the House, which passed a similar bill in 2005, in order to reconcile the two versions.
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Anderson and Tanner
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FairVote Press Conference: Redistricting
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FairVote's Busy Outreach Week
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Today Bipartisan Bill to Reform Redistricting
- Posted: July 18, 2006
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
FairVote and Members of Congress will hold a press conference today for the Fairness and Independence in Redistrict Act, a bipartisan bill introduced in both the House and Senate to establish nationwide redistricting standards. The renewed push for legislation comes in the wake of the Supreme Court decision on the Texas gerrymandering case of 2003, which handed responsibility for political reform to Congress.
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FairVote Radio: Ambrose Lane Show