Content Categorized with "Ranked Choice Voting"
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Michael Steele's RNC Win Helps Show how Instant Runoff Voting Works: Ranked voting methods abound in America culture
- Posted: February 5, 2009
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Advocates of ranked choice voting methods like instant runoff voting and the choice voting method of proportional representation often confront claims that their proposals are “exotic”, even “un-American.”
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Opinion: Now's the time to think of ideas for a new state government system
- Posted: February 4, 2009
- Author(s): Micah Weinberg
- Publication: San Jose Mercury News
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
New America Foundation Fellow Micah Weinberg talks about ideas for a proposed California constitutional convention, including proportional voting, instant runoff voting, and decreasing the number of representatives per resident. -
The U.S. is ready for election reform
- Posted: February 3, 2009
- Author(s): Bill Boyne
- Publication: Rochester Post Bulletin
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Columnist Bill Boyne makes the case for election reform, including, universal voter registration, instant runoff voting and a national popular vote for president. -
Test raises caution flag on 'top two' primary
- Posted: January 31, 2009
- Author(s): Steven Hill
- Publication: Sacramento Bee
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Top two primaries decrease voter choice in elections. Instant runoff voting would be a better choice for California -
Guest column: Instant runoff avoids costs, increases choice
- Posted: January 31, 2009
- Author(s): Jim Paprocki
- Publication: Des Moines Register
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Comment piece argues that instant runoff elections would save Iowans money and ensure that the winning candidate is preferred by most voters. -
Steele elected chair of RNC in instant runoff-type process
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Virgil Swing: Pondering the merits of instant-runoff voting
- Posted: January 29, 2009
- Author(s): Virgil Swing
- Publication: Duluth News Tribune
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Virgil Swing discusses the merits of adopting instant runoff voting in Duluth, Minnesota. -
Election Reform
- Posted: January 28, 2009
- Author(s): Nick Hannula
- Publication: The Concordian
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Instant runoff voting would all better representation of voters' choice in Minnesota elections. -
Instant-runoff voting wins a round
- Posted: January 14, 2009
- Author(s): Rochelle Olson
- Publication: Minneapolis Star Tribune
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Instant-runoff voting in Minneapolis has gotten a boost from a Hennepin County District judge. -
Judge upholds instant runoff voting in Minneapolis
- Posted: January 14, 2009
- Author(s): Brandt Williams
- Publication: Minnesota Public Radio
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Minneapolis The city of Minneapolis has cleared a major hurdle on its way to using instant runoff voting for city elections this fall. A Hennepin County judge has rejected a lawsuit seeking to halt the process.