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Louisiana's Cajun Primary: An Innovative Primary Undone by Electoral Stagnation
- Posted: November 20, 2015
- Author(s): Chris Hughes
- Categories: Home
Louisiana's innovative election system lacks true competition in practice, with most incumbents largely unopposed and unaccountable to voters. The Bayou State could promote the goals of majoritarian outcomes and real voter choice if it consolidated both elections with the use of ranked choice voting.
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Rich Tradition of Minority Party Representation Continues in Pennsylvania and Connecticut
- Posted: November 13, 2015
- Author(s): Chris Hughes
- Categories: Home
This year on Election Day in towns, cities, and counties across Pennsylvania and Connecticut minority parties earned representation thanks to fair representation voting methods. The use of "limited voting" in these places, which has been in place for decades, continues to ensure more political diversity than we see in most American cities today. -
New Jersey 2015 State Legislative Elections: The Predictive Power of Partisanship and One Party Rule
- Posted: November 13, 2015
- Author(s): Sarah John
- Categories: Home
New Jersey’s 2015 state election is striking for the predictive power of partisanship and the proportion of voters who are locked out of representation by a state legislator of their preferred political party. Under multi-winner RCV, most New Jerseyans would be able to cast a meaningful vote for a candidate of choice in the General Assembly and few voters would be trapped in a district without a representative from their preferred party.
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Election Day, 2015
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Virginia Legislative Elections Highlight Problems with Winner-Take-All Elections
- Posted: November 9, 2015
- Author(s): Haley Smith
- Categories: Home
Virginia's 2015 state legislative elections highlighted problems with winner-take-all elections in single-winner districts. More than two-thirds of seats were uncontested, 100% of incumbents won, and outcomes aligned nearly perfectly with the underlying partisan lean. Ranked choice voting in multi-winner districts would transform voter choice and fairness of representation. -
Seven Ways Ranked Choice Voting is Empowering Voters in 2015
- Posted: November 4, 2015
- Author(s): Drew Spencer
- Categories: Home
Election Day 2015 has come and gone, and voters in cities in six states again found that they were not limited to marking only one candidate, but had the ability to rank the candidates in order of choice. Here are seven ways RCV worked around the country this year. -
Ranked Choice Voting and Racial Group Turnout
- Posted: November 2, 2015
- Author(s): Andrew Douglas
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, Ranked Choice Voting in Bay Area Elections, FairVote Research on Local Elections, Research & Analysis, Home, FairVote, Voter Turnout, All Reports
A recent study on the impact of RCV in San Francisco presents some surprising findings on differences in turnout between racial groups that contradict previous research on the subject. In this report, we take a closer look at the study and find serious methodological flaws that cast doubt on its findings.
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What could an independent run by Jim Webb mean for 2016?
- Posted: October 23, 2015
- Author(s): Austin Plier
- Categories: Home
Former Virginia U.S. Senator Jim Webb ended his bid for the Democratic nomintion for president, but left the door open for an independent run. Because our current voting system breaks down when more than two candidates run, Webb wouldn't need too much support--especially with his roots in swing-state Virginia--to have an impact on the 2016 presidential race.
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A Historic Day for Ranked Choice Voting
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Anything but Fair: The Sad Tale of the Canadian Election System
- Posted: October 18, 2015
- Author(s): Sarah John
- Categories: Home
Canada likely will soon have another minority government . Pollsters project the Liberal Party will lead with between 110 and 150 seats, likely besting the incumbent Conservative Party government. No Canadian party has topped 40% of the vote since 2000, and plurality elections result in severe distortions in representation. The Liberals' platform includes a call for ranked choice voting.
Election Day, 2015 has come and gone, with new lessons to learn. With ranked choice voting elections taking place in cities and state legislative elections in states, FairVote's analysis and its reforms continue to shine.