Content Categorized with "FairVote"
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Douglas should have signed IRV bill
- Posted: April 13, 2008
- Author(s): Curtis Fisher
- Publication: The Rutland Herald
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Chair of Common Cause Vermont strongly defends instant runoff voting in commentary that appeared in two leading Vermont newspapers, the Rutland Herald and Montpelier Times-Argus. -
Laying a Foundation For Voting
- Posted: April 12, 2008
- Author(s): Marvin Krislov
- Publication: The Washington Post
- Categories: Democracy SOS Project, FairVote
Oberlin College president Marvin Krislov praises SoS Jennifer Brunner's new policy that eases voting for college students. -
AP NewsBreak: Idaho Republicans sue state to close primaries
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West Virginia Secretary of State Race
- Posted: April 12, 2008
- Author(s): Associated Press
- Categories: Democracy SOS Project, FairVote
West Virginia Secretary of State candidates each claim, if elected, they will update campaign finance laws, improve voter turnout and revamp polling places -
State wants $80,000 Blackwell paid to employees
- Posted: April 11, 2008
- Author(s): Mark Niquette
- Publication: Columbus Dispatch
- Categories: Democracy SOS Project, FairVote
Former Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell is back in the news after audit shows he misappropriated $80,000, in employee bonuses. -
Secretary of state visits Broward elections office, gives Snipes good marks
- Posted: April 11, 2008
- Author(s): Anthony Man
- Publication: Sun-Sentinel
- Categories: Democracy SOS Project, FairVote
New Florida Secretary of State received praise from state officials. -
Choice voting is the choice
- Posted: April 11, 2008
- Author(s): Carla Keppler
- Publication: The Daily Iowan
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Carla Keppler reports how IRV student elections at UI and other universities in the U.S. have been successful for democracy on campuses. -
Why Three Elections When One Could Do?
- Posted: April 11, 2008
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Louisiana held three runoff elections on April 5th to determine nominees for the May 3rd special election to fill the state’s two vacant congressional seats. Turnout declined by 17% from the first round, including 27% in the Democratic runoff in District 6. Louisiana taxpayers spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on these runoffs. On April 7th in California, voters filled a U.S. House vacancy in a single election – something Louisiana used to be able to do before its 2007 law establishing a primary-runoff-general election system that can mean three elections to elect candidates for the U.S. House and U.S. Senate.
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Bode 09 triumphs in SA election
- Posted: April 10, 2008
- Author(s): Susan Matthews
- Publication: The Dartmouth
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
New President and Vice-President elected through IRV at Dartmouth College. Bode garnered more than 600 first-choice votes over opponent Lee Cooper '09. Bode ultimately claimed the presidency with a 639-vote lead after eight rounds of instant-runoff -
Organization works to make voting fair
- Posted: April 10, 2008
- Author(s): Zack Levine
- Publication: The Daily Tar Heel
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
North Carolina State University newspaper reports about the meeting between FairVote North Carolina representatives and students to discuss election reforms.