Content Categorized with "Ranked Choice Voting"
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Lessons from Burlington
- Posted: March 4, 2010
- Author(s): Rob Richie
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, Home, FairVote
FairVote executive director Rob Richie reviews the recent IRV repeal referendum in Burlington, VT.
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Cleaning up politics: the UK to use alternative voting?
- Posted: February 10, 2010
- Author(s): Pauline Lejeune
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, Europe, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Home, Elections Worldwide
In the context of major distrust by British citizens of their almost 800 year-old democracy and their politicians, Gordon Brown proposed on February 2nd, in a speech at the Institute for Public Policy Research, to get rid of the UK’s “first-past-the-post” voting system.
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Major Instant Runoff Progress
- Posted: February 10, 2010
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, Home
The British House of Commons has voted overwhelmingly (365 to 187) to give voters a chance to adopt instant runoff voting. If approved in the House of Lords, it would be its first national referendum since the 1970s. In the United States, the major media is more focused on how using IRV may affect the Oscar vote for "Best Picture" even as Berkeley became the third new city this year to commit to using IRV in November and a series of low-plurality wins in Illinois primaries (including 20.3% in the GOP gubernatorial race) suggest President Obama was right in 2002 to propose IRV for Illinois primary elections.
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For Oscar Nominations, 'Choice' is Clear
- Posted: January 29, 2010
- Author(s): Paul Fidalgo
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Home, FairVote
We here at FairVote are probably a little more interested in the Oscars than most think tanks in DC. Sure, we like movies as much as anyone else, but there's one aspect of the awards that particularly sparks our interest: the Academy's voting system!
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Portland Charter Commission Recommends IRV
- Posted: January 29, 2010
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, Home, FairVote
This November, the voters of Portland (ME) will get the chance to decide if they would like to use instant runoff voting to elect their mayor, after a special Charter Commission recommended IRV by an overwhelming margin of 9 to 1. Eight elections since 2004 have yielded only plurality winners who have taken office with less than 48% of the vote. If Portland enacts IRV, the voters of Portland will begin ensuring majority-supported winners beginning in 2012.
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Oscar Blog Focuses on New Instant Runoff Voting System
- Posted: January 28, 2010
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Home, FairVote
Hollywood meets election reform as FairVote launches a new blog focused on the Academy Awards' new instant runoff voting system for Best Picture. "Oscar Votes 1-2-3" (http://oscarvotes123.com) is the nation's primary website to analyze the Oscars from the perspective of its newly-adopted preferential voting system for Best Picture. The site will also have information about the similar "choice voting" system of preferential voting used for decades for most Oscar nominations.
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San Leandro goes with ranked-choice voting system
- Posted: January 21, 2010
- Author(s): Jason Sweeney
- Publication: Oakland Tribune
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, Home, FairVote
After a much-anticipated vote, ranked-choice voting is a go in San Leandro.
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IRV on its Way to San Leandro
- Posted: January 20, 2010
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, Home, FairVote
The city of San Leandro (CA) will join its fellow Bay Area cities Oakland and San Francisco in adopting instant runoff voting. On January 19, the San Leandro city council voted 5-2 in favor of IRV, in keeping with a 2000 advisory election in which 66% of voters declared that they wanted IRV as an option to make sure office holders were elected by majority. The nearby city of Berkeley looks to be next.
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Consider shifting spring elections to fall
- Posted: January 13, 2010
- Publication: Capital Times
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, Home, FairVote
"Instant-runoff voting is working in communities across the country, including San Francisco and Burlington, Vt., and has tremendous potential to democratize our politics."
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The Value of IRV to the GOP
- Posted: January 12, 2010
- Author(s): Paul Fidalgo
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
The rise of the Tea Party movement could spell trouble for Republicans due to plurality rules in elections. As many progressives embraced IRV after the Nader-Gore split, so should the GOP take a serious look at backing instant runoff voting.