Content Categorized with "FairVote"
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Let voters register on election day
- Posted: October 12, 2008
- Author(s): Instant Runoff System Best
- Publication: Oregon Live
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
A Portland resident calls for instant runoff voting to end the spoiler problem. -
Experts cast votes on Electoral College at Janus lecture
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Report: Campaign stops heaped on few states
- Posted: October 10, 2008
- Author(s): Maureen Groppe
- Publication: Journal and Courier
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
The Journal and Courier picks up on FairVote's press release about the Shrinking Battleground in the 2008 Presidential Election. -
The Swing States of America
- Posted: October 9, 2008
- Categories: FairVote
As the presidential campaigns enter their final four weeks, it is clear that, just as in the 2004 presidential campaign, they are focusing their attention solely on a declining number of battleground states. The non-partisan organization FairVote is maintaining a daily tracker of visits to states by the four major party nominees since September 5, the first day after the Republican national convention. This data will be used to follow up FairVote's groundbreaking 2006 report Presidential Election Inequality about our nation's shrinking battleground in presidential elections.
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Instant runoff voting heads to court
- Posted: October 8, 2008
- Author(s): Tim Nelson
- Publication: Minnesota Public Radio
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
A lawsuit in Minneapolis will put the instant runoff voting system to the test. -
Local Group Attempts to Reform Kansas City Voting System
- Posted: October 7, 2008
- Author(s): Melinda Ivey
- Publication: Kansas City InfoZine
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
A new group has formed in Kansas City to help get ranked choice voting implemented as Kansas City's voting system for all municipal elections. -
Voting rolls grow 217,160
- Posted: October 7, 2008
- Author(s): Tim Hoover
- Publication: The Denver Post
- Categories: Democracy SOS Project, FairVote
This article in The Denver Post highlights FairVote's Democracy SoS research that shows a lack of uniformity in Colorado's election administration. -
Secretary of State predicts record turnout
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New Study: Colorado Officials Not Prepared for Anticipated Turnout
- Posted: October 6, 2008
- Categories: Democracy SOS Project, FairVote
Voters in Colorado could experience Election Day problems because of lack of preparation and uniformity, according to a report released today by nonpartisan election reform and voting rights advocacy group, FairVote.
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Uniformity in Election Administration: A 2008 Survey of Swing State County Clerks--Colorado Edition
- Posted: October 6, 2008
- Author(s): Adam Fogel, Allison McNeely, Daniel Weaver
- Categories: FairVote
The Democracy SOS Project aims to increase transparency in election administration and to monitor the actions of election officials, starting with Secretaries of State. This series reports the results of surveys of county clerks in 10 "swing states" during the 2008 presidential election. FairVote staff and interns surveyed nearly every county clerk in Missouri, New Mexico, Colorado, Pennsylvania and Virginia, as well as election officials in counties with at least 500,000 residents in Ohio, Florida, Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin.