Content Categorized with "FairVote"

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  • Black candidate for Euclid school board to test new voting system

    • Posted: August 21, 2009
    • Author(s): Patrick O'Donnell
    • Publication: Cleveland Plain Dealer
    • Categories: FairVote
    Limited voting, a form of proportional voting, will be used in Euclid (OH), in the hopes of allowing better representation of minorities.
  • 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.

  • Report: Widely Used Voting Machine Missed 0.4% of Ballots

    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. 

  • An Official Right to Vote

    • Posted: August 13, 2009
    • Author(s): Adam Fogel
    • Publication: The New York Times
    • Categories: FairVote
    FairVote's Adam Fogel responds to a New York Times Editorial about felon disenfranchisement.
  • More Quitters (R-Fla., R-Tex.)

    Washington Post editorial bemoans the fact that over a quarter of the nation is represented in the Senate by people that no one elected.
  • 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. 

  • E-Newsletter July 29, 2009

    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
  • Election Day Registration

    • Posted: July 27, 2009
    • Publication: Washington Post
    • Categories: FairVote
    Washington Post editorial page comes out in favor of DC's Omnibus Election Reform Act of 2009, which includes several FairVote-backed measures for improvements to registration and increased participation.
  • The Right Way to Register Voters

    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."