Content Authored by Patricia Hart
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FairVote Reforms are Gaining Steam on the Ground and in the Media
- Posted: July 3, 2014
- Author(s): Patricia Hart
- Categories: Presidential Elections, Reforms, Cumulative Voting, Home
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FairVote Reforms Move in States
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Everything's Bigger in Texas: Turnout Should Follow Suit
- Posted: March 26, 2014
- Author(s): Patricia Hart
Turnout in Texas' March 4th primary elections was abysmal - as usual.
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Historic Expansion of Suffrage: 16- and 17-Year-Olds Vote in City Election
- Posted: November 6, 2013
- Author(s): Patricia Hart
- Categories: Voting Rights
In one Maryland town, November 5, 2013 was no ordinary Election Day: it marked the beginning of a trailblazing expansion of suffrage rights. Takoma Park is the first city in the United States to open its polls in a general election to residents after they turn 16. The result was remarkable, including a turnout rate that was double that of city residents 18 and over.
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Organizers Work to Expand Suffrage in NYC
- Posted: October 24, 2013
- Author(s): Patricia Hart
- Categories: Voting Rights
In the center of a Nepalese restaurant in Queens, a dozen IVote organizers crowded around a cluster of tables. The topic of discussion: coordinating an upcoming mock election for New York City immigrants.
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Getting a Real "Colbert Bump" for Women's Representation Takes Fair Voting Systems and Better Party Rules
- Posted: March 29, 2013
- Author(s): Patricia Hart, Rob Richie
- Categories: Reforms, Monopoly Politics 2012 Map
After voters in South Carolina rejected four women running as Democratic Party nominees in the 2012 congressional elections, the state in a special election this May again has a chance elect its first female House members since 1990. The likely continuation of an all-male delegation provides lessons for what it will take to achieve gender parity in Congress: a combination of gender-conscious party rules and fair voting methods.
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New Jersey's Booker Backs Buono: A Page from the Parity Playbook
- Posted: March 24, 2013
- Author(s): Patricia Hart
- Categories: FairVote
Democrats and Republicans across the nation should take a page from Newark Mayor Cory Booker's playbook by backing female gubernatorial candidates in primary races. Booker is lending state Senator Barbara Buono his support as she campaigns in Newark to be the Democratic candidate for New Jersey Governor.
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Gender Parity: A Case for Fair Voting and Party Rules
- Posted: February 28, 2013
- Author(s): Patricia Hart
- Categories: Europe, International Elections
The United States trails behind ninety-one countries for women's representation in its national legislature . Ranking behind most industrialized democracies, women fill a mere eighteen percent of U.S. Congressional seats. Many factors contribute to the level of descriptive representation (representation that reflects the electorate) present in a state's government. Two striking influences on representation are structural and institutional: the electoral system in place and the party rules employed.
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President Obama's First Four Cabinet Picks: So Male and So Pale
- Posted: January 23, 2013
- Author(s): Patricia Hart
As President Obama's second-term Cabinet takes shape, the gender and ethnic composition of his team is drawing criticism from the Center of American Women in Politics, the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda Coalition and New York Democrat Charles Rangel, one of the longest serving black members of Congress. With white men nominated to the first four positions (secretary of defense, secretary of state, secretary of the Treasury and CIA director), it's time to start asking for a government that looks like America.
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South Korea Elects Its First Female President
- Posted: December 29, 2012
- Author(s): Patricia Hart
- Categories: Asia and Oceania, Elections Worldwide
Women world leaders enhanced their numbers this month, as Park Geun-Hye of South Korea joined the current 13 female presidents and premiers on Wednesday, Dec. 19. Park was elected directly with 51.66 percent of the vote, while her party, the New Frontier Party (NFP), took 152 of the 299 seats in the National Assembly.