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The Paradox of Fairness and Competition in Virginia Redistricting
- Posted: October 16, 2015
- Author(s): Drew Spencer
- Categories: Home, Redistricting
The most recent scuffle over congressional redistricting in Virginia illustrates how poor a job single-winner districts do at achieving meaningful elections with fair results. With single-winner districts, we get results that may or may not be fair, may or may not be competitive, and result in a paradox under which they cannot be both fair and competitive. -
Ranking the Presidential Candidates
- Posted: October 12, 2015
- Categories: Home
With a crowded field of candidates vying for the Republican and Democratic nominations to be the next President of the United States, more people are seeing the value of ranking the candidates.
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America’s History of Ranked Choice Voting
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Seventh Circuit on the Right to "An Effective Voice in the General Election."
- Posted: September 11, 2015
- Author(s): Rob Richie
- Categories: Home
The Court of Appeal for the Seventh Circuit recently struck down the use limited nominations in judicial elections in Indianapolis, Indiana. It held that the law substantially burdened "the right of voters to have an effective voice in the general election." -
Smart Ranked Choice Polling in the Presidential Race by PPP: New Poll Clarifies Nature of Donald Trump’s Support
- Posted: September 1, 2015
- Author(s): Rob Richie, Molly Rockett
- Categories: Home
After a fiery first Republican Presidential Debate on August 6th, the GOP primary field has continued to shift and change, leaving many pollsters struggling to catch up. To the surprise of many observers, Donald Trump has continued his surge – but new polling techniques helps clarify the nature of his support.
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Comparative Structural Reform
- Posted: August 31, 2015
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, National Popular Vote, Presidential Elections, Reforms, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Research & Analysis, Home, Redistricting, Voter Turnout, All Reports, Districts Plus
Comparative Structural Reform presents an extensive assessment of the potential impact of 37 structural reforms to election laws and legislative structures in collaboration with 14 prominent political scholars. Scholars participating in the project are authorities on electoral reform and legislative functionality, with extensive collective expertise and mastery of both quantitative and qualitative approaches to the study of American legislatures, elections and electoral rules. Each of the participating scholars was asked to assess each reform’s impact on 16 different criteria fitting within four topline categories: legislative functionality, electoral accountability, voter engagement, and openness of process. Scholars were compensated for their participation. All scholars responded to all eleven surveys and provided a wealth of insightful comments, new sources, and useful information in addition to their well-considered ratings of each reform.
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FairVote in the Supreme Court
- Posted: August 27, 2015
- Author(s): Drew Spencer
- Categories: Home
This month, FairVote submitted amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) briefs along with the Center for Competitive Democracy in the Supreme Court for two cases. One concerns closed primaries in New Jersey; the other concerns the "top two" system in California. In both, FairVote hopes to inform the Court of the various options states have for primary election and ballot access reform, and how those choices can affect voters.
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A Brief History of Ranked Choice Voting
- Posted: August 26, 2015
- Author(s): Krist Novoselic
- Categories: Home
Ranked choice voting is not a new idea. It is constitutionally protected and has a long history in our nation. The reform is reemerging as an alternative to the two round voting use in non-partisan municipal election, and it can also work in partisan elections.
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Single-winner Districts: Not what the Founding Fathers intended
- Posted: August 17, 2015
- Author(s): Jack Denvir
- Categories: Home
In many regards, modern American democracy is dysfunctional -- especially at the national level. Congress is mired in gridlock; passing few laws that align with what the American people want. -
The Ranked Choice Voting Act
- Posted: August 13, 2015
- Author(s): Sarah John, Haley Smith
- Categories: Home
Prominent legal scholar and political activist Larry Lessig has entered the 2016 race for the White House. Lessig’s plan for promoting equal representation advocates for passage of FairVote’s Ranked Choice Voting Act. The act seeks to promote better representation and end gerrymandering once and for all, promote collaboration between parties, and deliver political representation more proportional to the composite of the people.