Content Categorized with "Ranked Choice Voting"
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Herbkersman, Richie - Time to run off runoffs
- Posted: May 21, 2009
- Author(s): Rob Richie
- Publication: The State
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Runoffs after primaries can mean big plunges in voter turnout. Rob Richie and SC State Rep. Bill Herbkersman explain how IRV can solve this problem. -
FairVote Editorializes on IRV for Primaries in <i>The State</i>
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Fixing City Hall
- Posted: May 21, 2009
- Author(s): Cosmo Garvin
- Publication: News Review
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
A Sacramento Charter Review Committee is looking at both instant runoff voting and proportional representation as possible changes to the city's charter. -
Rattiner wins TCU presidency
- Posted: May 18, 2009
- Author(s): Ben Gittleson
- Publication: Tufts Daily
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Brandon Rattiner won the presidency in Tufts University student government elections, with 52% of the vote in the school's instant runoff voting election. -
California Assembly Unanimously Passes Ranked Ballots for Overseas Voters
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City attorney: IRV vote must wait
- Posted: May 15, 2009
- Author(s): John Briggs
- Publication: Burlington Free Press
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Article on Burlington City Attorney's decision that any attempt to repeal instant runoff voting must come during a regularly scheduled election, not during a special election. -
Give Ranked Choice a Chance
- Posted: May 15, 2009
- Author(s): Erik Connell
- Publication: The Melon
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Op-ed in Tacoma blog The Melon by FairVote Democracy Fellow Erik Connell on why Pierce County residents should vote to keep ranked choice voting this November. -
Cary's mistake
- Posted: May 14, 2009
- Author(s): Carol Everett
- Publication: News and Observer
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Letter to the Editor by Cary, NC resident Carol Everett expressing her disappointment in the Town Council's decision not to continue to participate in the state's instant runoff voting pilot. -
Good Things Come to Those Who Rank
- Posted: May 14, 2009
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Instant runoff voting is a ranked choice voting system that allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference. Recommended by Robert's Rules of Order and used in a rapidly growing number of elections here and abroad, it represents a major improvement over the usual plurality-based and two-round systems of voting. It protects majority rule, eliminates the need for costly extra elections and all but eradicates the potential chaos of "spoiler" candidacies. But beyond its clearly established benefits, we are seeing anecdotal evidence that suggests that IRV has a positive effect on the influence of big money on elections, and mitigating the temptation for campaigns to "go negative."
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Instant runoff voting gets Supreme Court hearing
- Posted: May 13, 2009
- Author(s): Curtis Gilbert
- Publication: Minnesota Public Radio
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Coverage of the Minnesota Supreme Court case on ranked choice voting's constitutionality.