Content Categorized with "FairVote"
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Blagojevich "Tell-All" Book Shows You Can't Play Appointment Games in U.S. House Elections
- Posted: September 1, 2009
- Categories: FairVote
In previews of a new tell-all book by Rod Blagojevich, the disgraced former Illinois governor explains his version of the political machinations behind the filling of the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President Obama. Blagojevich claims that his original intent for filling the Senate seat blatantly revolved around pursuing "pet projects" favored by the governor--appointing someone who would best represent the people of Illinois was nowhere in the calculation. Blagojevich also alleges that current White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel asked him to appoint a temporary "placeholder" U.S. Representative to his congressional seat, according to an August 31 Associated Press story by Deanna Bellandi.
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Motion Picture Academy Adopts Instant Runoff Voting for Best Picture
- Posted: September 1, 2009
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science announced this week that it will use instant runoff voting to choose its honoree for Best Picture, ensuring that the most celebrated movie of the year is one with strong support among Academy members. Used by the Academy in Best Picture voting before 1945, which was the last time ten pictures were nominated,instant runoff voting (IRV) is a system in which voters rank their preferences in order of choice. The nominee with the fewest votes is eliminated, and ballots cast for that film are moved to voter's next choice among the remaining films. The process continues until one film has more than half the votes and is declared Best Picture of the Year.
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E-Newsletter August 31, 2009
- Posted: August 31, 2009
- Categories: FairVote Reformer E-Newsletters, FairVote
Features:
- Democracy in Senatorial Succession
- Better Voting on the Ballot
- FairVote Reports and Testimony: Fixing the Primaries, Audited Elections
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Senators question system of replacing retirees
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Lowell (MA) to Bring Choice Voting to the Ballot
- Posted: August 28, 2009
- Categories: Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, FairVote
This November, voters in Lowell (MA) will have the opportunity to improve the city’s voting system with proportional voting. The city Election Office announced yesterday that a question regarding choice voting, a form of proportional representation, will be on the Lowell city ballot in the upcoming elections.
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A way to restore the people's Senate
- Posted: August 27, 2009
- Author(s): Brian Dickerson
- Publication: Detroit Free Press
- Categories: FairVote
Despite moves to change Massachusetts law to allow for appointments to fill Senate vacancies, Dickerson says mandating special elections would be a "fitting tribute" to the late Sen. Kennedy. -
If You Proportionally Allocate, They Will Come
- Posted: August 27, 2009
- Categories: FairVote, Presidential Nominations Reform
Turnout between the major parties for the 2008 presidential nomination cycle was disparate, to say the least. Democratic turnout nearly doubled those of the Republicans over all, and nearly tripled the Republicans’ turnout post-Super Tuesday, February 5th.
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Replacing Senator Kennedy
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Successor can wait
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Major Editorials: Let Voters Choose Massachusetts' Senators
- Posted: August 25, 2009
- Categories: FairVote
Prominent publications and political leaders in Massachusetts and across the country have joined FairVote in opposing a proposed change to Massachusetts law that would allow for the appointment of U.S. Senators in the case of a vacancy. Massachusetts is one of five states that requires a special election to fill vacancies in the U.S. Senate, but last week Sen. Edward Kennedy asked the governor and legislature of Massachusetts to amend that law so that if Sen. Kennedy should need to vacate his seat, a gubernatorial appointment could be made to immediately replace him.