Content Categorized with "FairVote"
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Black candidate for Euclid school board to test new voting system
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FairVote: Massachusetts Should Not Move to Appointed Senators
- Posted: August 21, 2009
- Categories: FairVote
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy requested yesterday that the governor and state legislature of Massachusetts change the law to allow the governor to appoint a new U.S. senator should the senator need to vacate his seat. FairVote, a nonpartisan election reform organization, opposes such a change, and today reiterated its call for all U.S. Senators to be elected by the people they represent, as is true of every Member who has served in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Report: Widely Used Voting Machine Missed 0.4% of Ballots
- Posted: August 18, 2009
- Categories: Research & Analysis, FairVote
Proving the value of transparency and redundancy in ballot-counting, an independent rescanning of ballots cast in the May 5, 2009 elections in Aspen (CO) showed that the voting machines used for the initial vote count entirely missed 11 (0.4%) out of the 2,544 ballots cast. The ballots were initially counted with Pitkin County's Premier (formerly Diebold) AccuVote optical scan voting machines, one of the most widely used optical scanning systems in the country. The error was discovered when TrueBallot, Inc., employed under contract with the city of Aspen to re-tally the elections at a central location, rescanned all ballots using a commercial off-the-shelf scanner and discovered the erroneously disregarded 11 ballots.
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An Official Right to Vote
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More Quitters (R-Fla., R-Tex.)
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Commentary: A cure for the political nomination process
- Posted: August 10, 2009
- Author(s): Rob Richie and Paul Fidalgo
- Publication: Cleveland Plain Dealer
- Categories: FairVote
FairVote's Rob Richie and Paul Fidalgo offer a way to give everyone a say in presidential nominations while retaining the valuable state-by-state evaluation process. This piece also ran in McClatchy's newswire. -
Martinez Resignation Highlights Need for Elections to Fill Senate Vacancies
- Posted: August 7, 2009
- Categories: FairVote
Florida U.S. Senator Mel Martinez has announced that he will resign this fall, more than a year before the end of this term. Gov. Charlie Crist, a leading candidate for the seat, is now in the position to decide who will fill the office in the interim, with the expectation of a placeholder candidate who likely will be a weak representative for one of our largest states.
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E-Newsletter July 29, 2009
- Posted: July 29, 2009
- Categories: FairVote Reformer E-Newsletters, FairVote
Features:
- Adam Fogel Testifies, Major Papers Back FairVote Reforms
- Action and Endorsements for Instant Runoff Voting, National Popular Vote
- Working from the Grassroots for Fair Representation
- FairVote Staff and Interns: Some Fond Farewells
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Election Day Registration
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The Right Way to Register Voters
- Posted: July 24, 2009
- Publication: The New York Times
- Categories: Universal Voter Registration, FairVote
Editorial by the New York Times comes out in support of efforts now underway in the US Senate to modernize voter registration practices so that we "live up to the ideal of the founders of a nation governed with the consent of the governed."