Content Categorized with "Ranked Choice Voting"
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Of Campaigns and Crosswords: Pluralities as Poor Political Reflections
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IRV in the National Spotlight
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Of Campaigns and Crosswords
- Posted: October 4, 2007
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Elections are like Scrabble. Winning requires strategy, a command of language and a sense of your opponent's weaknesses, there are very often more than two players, and it doesn't hurt to pull a seven-letter bingo from out of nowhere for a 50-point bonus (wait, I think that last one is only in Scrabble).
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Barry Bonds, Blast-offs and Ballots: What the Fate of a Baseball Teaches Us about Voting
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Barry Bonds, Blast-offs and Ballots
- Posted: September 20, 2007
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
As you may have heard by now, fashion designer Marc Ecko has purchased the baseball hit by Barry Bonds breaking Hank Aaron’s home run record for a mere $750,000. Given the controversial nature of Bonds’ achievement (a fray into which FairVote will not be jumping), Mr. Ecko’s stated purpose in buying the famous sphere was to “democratize” its fate. He is holding an online election asking interested parties to choose from one of three options:
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The First Shall Be Last: The Dangerous Decline in Primary Turnout
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The First Shall Be Last
- Posted: September 6, 2007
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
As the presidential nomination season is heating up, have you ever thought about the word "primary"? Going to the dictionary, one finds that the first definition is, "first or highest in rank, quality, or importance."
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Colorado Progress for IRV
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To the Spoilers Belong the Victors
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To the Spoilers Belong the Victors
- Posted: August 30, 2007
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
The President of the United States is tasked with being the leader of the entire country, including those who did not vote for him or her. Unlike Congress, where different viewpoints are represented in one body (even if only one party happens to be in control at any given time), a president is in office because his or her side won, and the other lost.