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FairVote's Bold Congressional Reform Agenda Gathers Support
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To Avoid More Government Shutdowns, We Need Ranked Choice Voting for Congress
- Posted: October 18, 2013
- Categories: Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Home
The government shut down because our winner-take-all system elected a polarized Congress with no incentive to compromise. To end the cycle of government-by-crisis and elect a more representative Congress, we need ranked choice voting in multi-seat districts for Congress.
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Progress for Ranked Choice Voting
- Posted: October 1, 2013
- Categories: Home
Ranked choice voting has been frequently in the news lately. Minneapolis has an upcoming ranked choice election featuring a broad array of candidates. Meanwhile, New York City is dealing with an expensive runoff election for Public Advocate that would be unnecessary with ranked choice voting. Other cities continue to push to empower their voters to rank candidates instead of being limited to indicating support for only one.
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Representation 2020: A Century from Suffrage to Parity
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Fair Representation Voting Explained
- Posted: August 2, 2013
- Categories: Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Congressional Elections, Home
Learn more about why Congress is broken and the fair representation voting solution with FairVote's new Fixing Democracy infographics series.
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Announcement: What Comes Now for the Right to Vote
- Posted: June 25, 2013
- Categories: FairVote Reformer E-Newsletters, Right to Vote Amendment, FairVote
Announcement regarding the Supreme Court decision on the Voting Rights Act.
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FairVote's Leadership on Right to Vote
- Posted: June 25, 2013
- Categories: Right to Vote Amendment, Home, Voting Rights
NEW: FairVote policy brief on right to vote amendment
May and June have been big months for FairVote's work advancing a right to vote in the Constitution. In Congress, representatives Mark Pocan and Keith Ellison introduced bill for a right to vote amendment along lines that we have recommended, featuring quotes from FairVote in their news release.
Locally, our hometown of Takoma Park (MD) became the first to pass a resolution in support of a constitutional right to vote and is making concrete commitments to expand suffrage and boost turnout. One significant change: Takoma Park will become the first city in the United States to extend voting rights to residents after they turn 16.
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FairVote's 2014 Congressional Analysis
- Posted: May 1, 2013
- Categories: Congressional Elections, Home
Every two years, FairVote conducts a thorough analysis of congressional elections, pointing out problems and making predictions in U.S. House of Representatives districts in all 50 states, that we call Monopoly Politics. We recently released our first projections for the 2014 congressional elections, including publishing a downloadable spreadsheet with partisanship data for every congressional district in the country. Check out the media coverage of our 2014 projections, our Monopoly Politics 2012 report, and our resources on the fair voting solution.
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FairVote's Major New Publications & Opeds
- Posted: April 10, 2013
- Categories: Home
FairVote regularly publishes op-eds, blogs and longer articles. Rob Richie and Andrea Levien will have an article on the National Popular Vote plan for president in the prestigious Presidential Studies Quarterly, Richie is coauthor of the 2013 edition of Every Vote Equal, and Richie and Drew Spencer have a new University of Richmond Law Review article on the case for choice voting as an alternative to winner-take-all elections in the United States.
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FairVote Testimony on Independent Redistricting in Maryland
- Posted: March 11, 2013
- Categories: Redistricting
On March 11, 2013, legal fellow Drew Spencer and research fellow Devin McCarthy testified before the Maryland House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee on HB 233, which would establish a Study Commission on the Redistricting Process in Maryland.