Content Categorized with "Ranked Choice Voting"
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Oakland Set to Use IRV in 2010
- Posted: January 6, 2010
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, Home, FairVote
The Oakland (CA) City Council voted on January 5 to adopt instant runoff voting for its mayoral and council elections in 2010, enacting a ballot measure won with 69% and foregoing its traditional low-turnout June elections. Alameda County's elections department deserves great credit for preparing to use IRV, as does the New America Foundation, Caliornians for Electoral Reform and an impressive array of community groups. Berkeley is expected to join Bay Area neighbors Oakland and San Francisco in IRV elections this November.
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Ranked Voting and Questions About Election Integrity
- Posted: January 1, 2010
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, Research & Analysis, FairVote, All Reports
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IRV and Choice Voting on Election Day 2009: Wins, Losses and the Long-Term Trajectory
- Posted: November 6, 2009
- Author(s): Rob Richie
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Home
November 3rd highlighted controversies about multi-candidate races and non-majority winners in key races for governor in New Jersey and U.S. House in New York, drawing high-profile attention to instant runoff voting (IRV) as a solution, including in a widely-published oped by FairVote board member John B. Anderson and my comments on The Hill's "Big Question". The elections also brought direct advances for IRV, although with disappointments as well.
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Mike Huckabee Inadvertently Makes the Case for IRV
- Posted: November 5, 2009
- Author(s): Paul Fidalgo
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, Home, FairVote
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IRV Soars in Twin Cities, FairVote Corrects the Pundits on Meaning of Election Night '09
- Posted: November 5, 2009
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, Home, FairVote
Election Day '09 was a roller-coaster for election reformers. Instant runoff voting had a great night in Minnesota, where St. Paul voters chose to implement IRV for its city elections, and Minneapolis voters used IRV for the first time.
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FairVote on Election 2009: Pundits Rush to Errant Judgment
- Posted: November 4, 2009
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Rob Richie, elections expert and executive director of the nonpartisan elections think tank FairVote, warned pundits and prognosticators to think twice about their analysis of Tuesday's elections and their relevance to the national mood. "Just as Democratic successes in gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia in 2001 in no way predicted the GOP-dominated electoral outcomes in federal elections in 2002 and 2004, we should be skeptical that last night's Republican victories in those states will have any meaning beyond themselves," said Richie.
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Live blogging the 2009 elections... some races we're following tonight
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Minneapolis' first election with instant runoff voting-- smooth for voters
- Posted: November 3, 2009
- Author(s): Rob Richie
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, Home, FairVote
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Don Fraser and George Latimer: The case for instant-runoff voting is clear
- Posted: October 30, 2009
- Author(s): Don Frasier and George Latimer
- Publication: Star Tribune
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Two former politicians tell St. Paul voters that IRV is "vitally important to us as citizens and as members of our communities." -
Plurality voting rule is the real election spoiler
- Posted: October 29, 2009
- Author(s): John B. Anderson
- Publication: Baltimore Sun
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
In the midst of 3-way races in NJ and NY, FairVote board member and 1980 presidential candidate John Anderson makes the case for IRV over our flawed plurality system.