Content Categorized with "Ranked Choice Voting"
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GSA candidate withdraws from race
- Posted: April 19, 2008
- Author(s): Lucy Benz-Rogers
- Publication: The Daily Bruin
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
An article about UCLA recent student elections using IRV which shows a key value for IRV focusing on how well it accommodates a candidate's late withdrawal in a campaign. -
Minneapolis steps closer to instant runoff
- Posted: April 18, 2008
- Author(s): Steve Brandt
- Publication: Star Tribune
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Minneapolis takes key step toward implementing IRV for mayoral and other city elections in 2009. -
Lawmakers will try to override vetoes
- Posted: April 14, 2008
- Author(s): Louis Porter
- Publication: The Rutland Herald
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
News story on debate in Vermont about overriding the governor's veto of legislation to implement instant runoff voting for congressional elections. -
Winners of ASSU election announced
- Posted: April 14, 2008
- Author(s): Nikhil Joshi
- Publication: The Daily Stanford
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Another successful student election using IRV has been held at Stanford University. Undergraduate senators, class presidents and special fee candidates have been elected through IRV. -
Douglas should have signed IRV bill
- Posted: April 13, 2008
- Author(s): Curtis Fisher
- Publication: The Rutland Herald
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Chair of Common Cause Vermont strongly defends instant runoff voting in commentary that appeared in two leading Vermont newspapers, the Rutland Herald and Montpelier Times-Argus. -
Choice voting is the choice
- Posted: April 11, 2008
- Author(s): Carla Keppler
- Publication: The Daily Iowan
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Carla Keppler reports how IRV student elections at UI and other universities in the U.S. have been successful for democracy on campuses. -
Why Three Elections When One Could Do?
- Posted: April 11, 2008
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Louisiana held three runoff elections on April 5th to determine nominees for the May 3rd special election to fill the state’s two vacant congressional seats. Turnout declined by 17% from the first round, including 27% in the Democratic runoff in District 6. Louisiana taxpayers spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on these runoffs. On April 7th in California, voters filled a U.S. House vacancy in a single election – something Louisiana used to be able to do before its 2007 law establishing a primary-runoff-general election system that can mean three elections to elect candidates for the U.S. House and U.S. Senate.
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Bode 09 triumphs in SA election
- Posted: April 10, 2008
- Author(s): Susan Matthews
- Publication: The Dartmouth
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
New President and Vice-President elected through IRV at Dartmouth College. Bode garnered more than 600 first-choice votes over opponent Lee Cooper '09. Bode ultimately claimed the presidency with a 639-vote lead after eight rounds of instant-runoff -
Organization works to make voting fair
- Posted: April 10, 2008
- Author(s): Zack Levine
- Publication: The Daily Tar Heel
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
North Carolina State University newspaper reports about the meeting between FairVote North Carolina representatives and students to discuss election reforms. -
The complexities of instant-runoff voting
- Posted: April 10, 2008
- Author(s): Anna H.R. Khan and Danny Arbeiter
- Publication: The Daily Stanford
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Commentary about the reasons Stanford uses instant runoff voting for its student elections.