Content Authored by Andrea Levien
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Election Administration Under National Popular Vote: Simpler Than You Might Think
- Posted: May 15, 2013
- Author(s): Andrea Levien
- Categories: Presidential Elections, National Popular Vote, Home
Not only will the National Popular Vote plan make presidential elections fairer, but it will also maintain each state's autonomy in controlling its own elections.
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FairVote Maps the 2012 Presidential Campaign
- Posted: April 30, 2013
- Author(s): Andrea Levien
- Categories: Presidential Elections, National Popular Vote, Home
Check out FairVote's new Google Map, which shows in detail when and where the presidential and vice presidential candidates held events during the fall campaign. The distribution may surprise you.
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FairVote's Top Ten List: The Breakdown of Winner-Take-All Elections
- Posted: April 26, 2013
- Author(s): Andrea Levien, Devin McCarthy, Rob Richie
- Categories: National Popular Vote, Presidential Elections, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Congressional Elections, Home
These are the top ten indicators that winner-take-all has led to the breakdown of the American electoral system in both presidential and legislative elections.
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"Battleground Texas" Still Many Years Away
- Posted: March 25, 2013
- Author(s): Andrea Levien
- Categories: Presidential Elections, National Popular Vote, Home
Those seeking to make Texas a battleground state in presidential elections are failing to confront the realities of our winner-take-all voting rules for allocating electoral votes, as well as the increasing rigidity of partisan voting patterns in America. Over the next twenty years, the only way for Texas to ensure that it becomes relevant in presidential elections is to help activate the National Popular Vote plan for president.
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New York Times Perpetuates Myth that Current Electoral College Rules Help Small States
- Posted: March 18, 2013
- Author(s): Andrea Levien, Rob Richie
- Categories: Presidential Elections, Home
Last week, The New York Times published a long analysis by Adam Liptak about the advantages conferred on small states by their outsized representation in the U.S. Senate. It's an important and revealing article, but one that is marred by its inclusion of the National Popular Vote as part of its analysis. We do applaud Liptak for discussing the National Popular Vote plan, as it is promises to be an historic reform drive that will change the Electoral College as we know it. But the National Popular Vote plan in no way "counteracts" the excess power of small states. In fact, it does just the opposite, giving voters in small states the attention and electoral clout that they deserve in presidential elections.
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2013 Edition of Every Vote Equal: The case for the National Popular Vote Plan
- Posted: March 5, 2013
- Author(s): Andrea Levien
- Categories: Presidential Elections, National Popular Vote, Home
FairVote is pleased to announce that the newest edition of National Popular Vote's Every Vote Equal: A State Based Plan for Electing the President by National Popular Vote, is now available for free download at www.EveryVoteEqual.com. Co-authored by FairVote's executive director Rob Richie, this book explains in detail the need for a national popular vote for president, and the solution to that need: the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
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True The Vote Fudges the Numbers in New Turnout Study
- Posted: February 28, 2013
- Author(s): Andrea Levien
- Categories: Home, Voting Rights
True the Vote, an organization dedicated to eradicating voter fraud through controversial methods, issued a report on February 27 concluding that new voter ID laws not only did not have an adverse impact on turnout in the 2012 elections, but may have increased turnout. But it turns out the report’s authors made a huge methodological mistake.
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FairVote's Top Three Electoral College Stories of the Week, February 12 to February 19, 2013
- Posted: February 19, 2013
- Author(s): Andrea Levien
- Categories: Presidential Elections, National Popular Vote, Home
Tune in every week for FairVote's favorite news items on the Electoral College and National Popular Vote.
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Geography as a Failed Unit of Representation: Why Fifty States of Equal Population Is No Solution for Presidential Elections
- Posted: February 15, 2013
- Author(s): Andrea Levien, Devin McCarthy, Rob Richie
- Categories: National Popular Vote, Presidential Elections, Congressional Elections, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Home
The idea of electing the president with a creative alternative map of the United States in which every state has equal population has drawn sympathetic support from Atlantic writer Jim Fallows. But uneven population of states has little to do with what's broken in presidential elections, just as equal population congressional districts leave us with broken U.S. House elections. We must free ourselves from geographic boundaries and go to the real meaning of one-person, one-vote with the National Popular Vote plan for president and fair voting for Congress.
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Following the Money: Campaign Donations and Spending in the 2012 Presidential Race
- Posted: February 13, 2013
- Author(s): Andrea Levien
- Categories: National Popular Vote, All Reports
As we’ve shown at FairVote in study after study, the great majority of people and states are ignored during the election for our country’s highest office. But in the 2012 election, every state was invested at least in one way – they all had residents who donated to and financed the two major party candidates’ campaigns. However, when it came down to the stretch run, the candidates did not reciprocate this national effort. Instead, candidates concentrated their efforts in a small number of states and left the others as net exporters campaign contributions relative to campaign spending. This report takes a state-by-state look at the data.