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Coming Monday: FairVote RI's Ballot Bash with Hertzberg
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Instant runoff voting on a remarkable roll of new support and attention
- Posted: December 11, 2008
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
The 2008 election included a remarkable feature: all the candidates for president backed instant runoff voting. In its wake, support for "IRV" (also called "ranked choice voting") keeps growing.
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FairVote presents Democracy Innovator awards at conference
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FairVote's Ballot Bash
- Posted: December 11, 2008
- Categories: FairVote
On December 15th, FairVote Rhode Island will throw its first-ever fundraiser, the Ballot Bash. We'll gather at the Hi-Hat in Providence to hear remarks from FairVote's national director, Rob Richie, and one of our board members, Hendrik Hertzberg. Hertzberg is renowned for his role as an influential political commentator; he serves as a senior editor for the New Yorker (where you may have read his many "Comment" pieces) and formerly as the executive editor of the New Republic. From 1979-1980, he was President Jimmy Carter's chief speechwriter.
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Matt Sledge on the Matt Allen Show
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Instant runoff voting
- Posted: December 10, 2008
- Author(s): Blair Bobier
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Los Angeles Times editorial written by the New America Foundation deputy director Blair Bobier champions the benefits of instituting Instant Runoff Voting. -
FairVote Announces Inaugural Democracy Innovator Awards
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Report card for ranked-choice voting
- Posted: December 9, 2008
- Author(s): Steven Hill
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
FairVote ally Steven Hill reports on the success of Instant Runoff Voting in San Francisco. -
FairVote's new report: 98% of attention to 15 states
- Posted: December 7, 2008
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
As the Electoral College prepares to convene on December 15, FairVote has released a powerful new report on where the major party presidential campaigns devoted time and resources.
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2008's Shrinking Battleground and Its Stark Impact on Campaign Activity
- Posted: December 4, 2008
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
Both major party candidates in the 2008 presidential election made an ambitious promise upon effectively securing their party’s nominations —to wage nationwide campaigns and reach out to as many voters in as many states as possible. But the candidate's good intentions were undercut by the political reality created by the current Electoral College system and states’ use of the winner-take-all rule. Under that winner-take-all rule, candidates have no reason to poll, visit, advertise, organize or pay attention to the concerns of states where they are comfortably ahead or hopelessly behind.