FairVote E-Newsletters

• FairVote Reformer: Winner-Take-All Electoral System is a Loser for Democracy

  January 23, 2015

  After his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, President Barack Obama stressed a vision of  "united states." We discuss how this clashes with the unforgiving logic of winner-take-all elections and how the National Popular Vote plan for president would address this in this edition of The Reformer. 

• FairVote Reformer: Spotlight on Projections in 85% of 2016 Congressional Elections

  December 15, 2014

  On November 6, 2014, more than two years before the 2016 congressional elections, FairVote projected the outcomes of the 2016 congressional elections in more than 85% of U.S. house seats. We discuss the ramifications of these projections in this issue of The Reformer.

• The Reformer: Special Edition, FairVote's Reforms Featured in Washington Post and New York Times

  August 27, 2014

  We'll be back next month with more detailed news from FairVote, but as summer comes to a close we wanted to share two high-profile commentaries on our core reform proposals.

• The Reformer: Encouraging Examples of All-Partisan Support for Reform

  July 31, 2014

  With political polarization at its highest point in more than a century, observers often assume opposition to reform is inevitable. But there have been recent developments in bipartisan cooperation for FairVote’s Reform 2020 agenda, which we discuss in this issue of The Reformer.

• Innovative Analysis: The World Cup of Democracy

  July 9, 2014

  FairVote regularly publishes Innovative Analysis, an in depth look into what we’ve been researching. The FIFA World Cup is in its final week in Brazil. And while that tournament will eventually crown the best national soccer team in the world, we wondered what it would look like if it was crowning the healthiest electoral democracy in the world. With that in mind, we decided to put together an index that compares electoral health across countries and then apply it to this year’s World Cup.

   

   

• The 2014 Primaries: Why They Matter, What’s Wrong With Them, and How to Fix Them

  May 20, 2014

  The 2014 primary season is well underway. Seven states and the District of Columbia have already held their primaries, with six more voting today, and many more will be holding primaries over the next few weeks. Primaries typically get little coverage, but they are one of the most important – and problematic – aspects of the American electoral system. 

Read More