Content Authored by Devin McCarthy
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Nine House Races to Watch (and Five You Don't Have To) on Election Night
- Posted: November 3, 2012
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy, Rob Richie
- Categories: Congressional Elections, Home
These are the races that prominent election forecasters might get wrong by underestimating the importance of district partisanship in determining the outcome of congressional elections. See what FairVote's partisanship-based analysis predicts.
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FairVote Report: Low Turnout Plagues U.S. Mayoral Elections, but San Francisco is Highest
- Posted: October 24, 2012
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy, Rob Richie
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, Home
A new dataset compiled by FairVote reveals that low voter turnout is pervasive in recent mayoral elections in the 22 largest U.S. cities.
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Putin's United Russia Wins Resounding Victories in Local Elections
- Posted: October 18, 2012
- Author(s): Sara Helmi, Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, Europe, International Elections, Home, Elections Worldwide
As the results of Russia's October 14 local elections show, the rumors of United Russia's death have been greatly exaggerated. But did Vladimir Putin's party manipulate Russia's electoral laws to keep power?
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Opposition Parties Win First Round of Lithuanian Elections
- Posted: October 17, 2012
- Author(s): Sara Helmi, Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Europe, International Elections, Home, Elections Worldwide
Lithuania's conservative government is likely to be toppled following a defeat in the October 14 national elections. Lithuania uses a combination of open list proportional representation and a winner-take-all runoff system based on geographic constituencies to elect its legislature.
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Major Media Gets it Wrong on Hong Kong Elections
- Posted: September 24, 2012
- Author(s): Sara Helmi, Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Asia and Oceania, International Elections, Home, Elections Worldwide
Hong Kong's pro-democracy parties did not perform as well as expected in the September 9 Legislative Council elections. The New York Times would have you believe that the disappointing result can be blamed on Hong Kong's proportional representation system. But that explanation is misleading and distracts from the real problems of the city's electoral structure.
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The Nonpartisan Case for National Popular Vote: Al Gore, not GOP Platform, Gets it Right
- Posted: September 5, 2012
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy, Rob Richie
- Categories: National Popular Vote, Home
Last week, the 2012 Republican Party Platform came out against a national popular vote, while Al Gore spoke in favor of one. Does that mean that the National Popular Vote plan is a partisan issue? To the contrary.
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Swing States of America: Candidate Tracker and News, August 17
- Posted: August 17, 2012
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Presidential Tracker, Presidential Elections, Home
Mitt Romney's choice of Paul Ryan could improve his chances in Ryan's home state of Wisconsin, but by how much? Will the overperforming economies of many swing states give President Obama victory in November?
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Swing States of America: Candidate Tracker and News, August 6
- Posted: August 6, 2012
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy, Presidential Tracker
- Categories: Presidential Tracker, Presidential Elections, National Popular Vote, Home
Nationwide polls remain close, but recent swing state polling suggests that President Barack Obama is beginning to pull away from Mitt Romney in the few states that will decide the 2012 presidential election. Obama attempts to further increase this lead with another week of swing state campaigning.
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Electing Lords: A Unique Opportunity for Electoral Reform in the British Upper House
- Posted: July 31, 2012
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Europe, Reforms, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Home, Elections Worldwide
A lordship, by its very definition, has historically not been an elected office. But there is a strong movement in the British House of Commons to transform the upper house of the British parliament, the House of Lords, into a largely elected body based on proportional representation. This reform is long overdue.
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North Carolina's Miniscule Runoff Turnout Undercuts Legitimacy
- Posted: July 24, 2012
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, Home
A higher percentage of Americans believe in vampires than voted in North Carolina's July 17th primary runoff for nominations for Congress and key statewide offices. Unless North Carolina wants to risk a vampire or a similarly extreme candidate winning an election, it needs to change its runoff system. Instant runoff voting is the solution.