Content Categorized with "FairVote"
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The First Shall Be Last
- Posted: September 6, 2007
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
As the presidential nomination season is heating up, have you ever thought about the word "primary"? Going to the dictionary, one finds that the first definition is, "first or highest in rank, quality, or importance."
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E-Newsletter September 6, 2007
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Colorado Progress for IRV
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The Primary Problem
- Posted: September 2, 2007
- Publication: The New York Times
- Categories: FairVote, Presidential Nominations Reform
An editorial call to fix the primaries system, with a particular nod to the FairVote-backed American Plan. -
FairVote at APSA
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To the Spoilers Belong the Victors
- Posted: August 30, 2007
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
The President of the United States is tasked with being the leader of the entire country, including those who did not vote for him or her. Unlike Congress, where different viewpoints are represented in one body (even if only one party happens to be in control at any given time), a president is in office because his or her side won, and the other lost.
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Senator Feinstein: Ax the Electoral College
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Federal Court of Appeals Upholds Cumulative Voting
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Rob Richie on All Things Considered
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Growing Polarization
- Posted: August 23, 2007
- Categories: FairVote
In lecterns in New Hampshire, town hall meetings in Iowa, and television studios inside the Beltway, candidates, pundits, and just about everyone else bemoan the growing polarization of the American electorate. As the political tectonic plates slowly shift, the seismic shocks cause the fault lines between red and blue to rent themselves even farther apart, while swing voters scramble so as not to fall into the widening gap. Surely, it can’t be as bad as all that!