Content Categorized with "FairVote"
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FairVote Hopes We Can Count on Your Support
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Utah Commission Endorses Automatic Registration
- Posted: December 9, 2009
- Categories: Home, Universal Voter Registration, FairVote
The Governor's Commission on Strengthening Utah's Democracy today unanimously recommended FairVote.
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Youth Voter Pre-Registration News
- Posted: November 30, 2009
- Author(s): Adam Fogel
- Categories: Home, Universal Voter Registration, FairVote
The past few weeks have brought us a lot of voter registration news that shows that we are moving closer and closer to a system of universal voter registration.
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International Snapshot: Japan 2009
- Posted: November 24, 2009
- Author(s): Pauline Lejeune, Rob Richie
- Categories: Research & Analysis, Asia and Oceania, International Elections, FairVote, All Reports
The Japanese parliamentary elections in August 30, 2009 marked a turning point in Japan’s political history. Since 1955, Japan has been dominated by one party, with the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) as the governing party for all but 11 months. But in these elections the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) defeated the LDP, winning 308 seats to 109 for the LDP in the 480-seat House of Representatives.
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Suffragium Ex Machina
- Posted: November 12, 2009
- Categories: Research & Analysis, FairVote
Today the machinery of American democracy (literally) is increasingly dependent on one large corporation with little interest in transparency, competition or innovations that might affect its bottom line. For years FairVote has proposed publicly controlled voting processes, ideally with transparent administration and clear lines of accountability grounded in publicly owned voting equipment.
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R.I. Gov. Thinks 0.0001% Turnout for U.S. Senate Elections is Just Fine
- Posted: November 10, 2009
- Author(s): Paul Fidalgo
- Categories: U.S. Senate Vacancy Elections, Home, FairVote
Shocking no one but disappointing many, Rhode Island's Gov. Carcieri vetoed legislation that would have mandated a special election in the case of a vacancy in one of the state's U.S. Senate seats.
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Voting Equipment and the Way Elections Are Run
- Posted: November 7, 2009
- Author(s): Rob Richie
- Publication: New York Times
- Categories: Research & Analysis, FairVote
Rob Richie's letter to the editor on the dangers of the consolidation of the voting equipment industry -- placed in contrast to one of the leaders of that same industry.
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IRV Soars in Twin Cities, FairVote Corrects the Pundits on Meaning of Election Night '09
- Posted: November 5, 2009
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, Home, FairVote
Election Day '09 was a roller-coaster for election reformers. Instant runoff voting had a great night in Minnesota, where St. Paul voters chose to implement IRV for its city elections, and Minneapolis voters used IRV for the first time.
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Mike Huckabee Inadvertently Makes the Case for IRV
- Posted: November 5, 2009
- Author(s): Paul Fidalgo
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, Home, FairVote
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D.C. City Council Passes Election Omnibus
- Posted: November 5, 2009
- Author(s): Adam Fogel
- Categories: D.C. Voting Rights, Home, FairVote
The D.C. City Council passed the final reading of the the sweeping Omnibus Election Reform Act of 2009.