Content Categorized with "FairVote"
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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. -
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. -
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. -
Good Things Come to Those Who Rank
- Posted: May 14, 2009
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Instant runoff voting is a ranked choice voting system that allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference. Recommended by Robert's Rules of Order and used in a rapidly growing number of elections here and abroad, it represents a major improvement over the usual plurality-based and two-round systems of voting. It protects majority rule, eliminates the need for costly extra elections and all but eradicates the potential chaos of "spoiler" candidacies. But beyond its clearly established benefits, we are seeing anecdotal evidence that suggests that IRV has a positive effect on the influence of big money on elections, and mitigating the temptation for campaigns to "go negative."
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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. -
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. -
Bill promotes teen voter registration
- Posted: May 11, 2009
- Author(s): Tonya Jameson
- Publication: The Charlotte Observer
- Categories: Universal Voter Registration, FairVote
North Carolina's bi-partisan 16-year-old advance registration and civics education bill unanimously passed the Election Law and Campaign Finance Reform committee last week.