Content Categorized with "FairVote"
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Topsy Turvy Week Shows Need For Fixing a Broken System
- Posted: October 5, 2008
- Author(s): Rob Kall
- Publication: Op Ed News
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
The Editor of Op Ed News calls for instant runoff voting. -
October Email Update
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Making Our Votes Really Count
- Posted: October 1, 2008
- Author(s): Nicholas Jahr
- Publication: Brooklyn Rail
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
News analysis of moves toward instant runoff voting and choice voting in New York City. -
Minneapolis OK for '09 instant-runoff , official says
- Posted: October 1, 2008
- Author(s): STEVE BRANDT
- Publication: Minneapolis Star Tribune
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
The city's top election official is urging that Minneapolis go ahead next year with voter-approved instant runoff voting. -
The supervisorial races would be very different without ranked-choice voting
- Posted: October 1, 2008
- Author(s): TIM REDMOND
- Publication: San Francisco Bay Guardian
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Weekly's long-time editor comments on how IRV is promoting positive politics and voter choice in his city. -
New Zealand's capital city votes to keep choice voting
- Posted: September 29, 2008
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
New Zealand continues to show leadership in providing its voters with fair representation and meaningful ballot choices. After a three-week postal voting campaign, on September 27th the city of Wellington (the nation's capital and its second largest city) announced that a majority voted to keep the choice voting method of proportional representation for city council elections and instant runoff voting for its mayoral elections.
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General Election Registration Deadline Approaching
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Final arguments today on Port Chester voting-rights remedy
- Posted: September 23, 2008
- Author(s): Leah Rae
- Publication: Lower Hudson Journal News
- Categories: FairVote
A federal judge in White Plains will hear final arguments today on how to remedy Port Chester's village board elections, which were found to put Latino voters at a disadvantage. FairVote has filed an amicus brief arguing for a PR solution. -
Drop Out of College!
- Posted: September 21, 2008
- Author(s): John R. Koza
- Publication: New York Post
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
Op-ed by National Popular Vote's John Koza featured in the New York Post -
Issue 8 deserves voters' OK
- Posted: September 20, 2008
- Publication: Business Courier of Cincinnati
- Categories: Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, FairVote
This newspaper editorial provides a strong endorsement for Cincinnati's campaign to reintroduce proportional voting.