Content Categorized with "FairVote"
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Push continues to defeat Electoral College
- Posted: February 5, 2009
- Author(s): DAVE GRAM
- Publication: Associated Press
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
Associated Press wire story on National Popular Vote moving in Vermont features FairVote analysis
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Opinion: Now's the time to think of ideas for a new state government system
- Posted: February 4, 2009
- Author(s): Micah Weinberg
- Publication: San Jose Mercury News
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
New America Foundation Fellow Micah Weinberg talks about ideas for a proposed California constitutional convention, including proportional voting, instant runoff voting, and decreasing the number of representatives per resident. -
E-Newsletter February 4, 2009
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The U.S. is ready for election reform
- Posted: February 3, 2009
- Author(s): Bill Boyne
- Publication: Rochester Post Bulletin
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Columnist Bill Boyne makes the case for election reform, including, universal voter registration, instant runoff voting and a national popular vote for president. -
Illinois flap spurs R.I. bill on naming senators
- Posted: February 2, 2009
- Author(s): Journal State House Bureau
- Publication: The Providence Journal
- Categories: FairVote
Allegations that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich tried to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President Obama prompted the filing of legislation here to strip Rhode Island's governor of the power to appoint replacement U.S. senators. -
FairVote on TV to Discuss National Popular Vote
- Posted: February 1, 2009
- Categories: FairVote
In January, FairVote RI Director Matt Sledge appeared on Operation Clean Government's "State of the State" program to discuss the National Popular Vote proposal to directly elect the president and vice-president.
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Guest column: Instant runoff avoids costs, increases choice
- Posted: January 31, 2009
- Author(s): Jim Paprocki
- Publication: Des Moines Register
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Comment piece argues that instant runoff elections would save Iowans money and ensure that the winning candidate is preferred by most voters. -
Test raises caution flag on 'top two' primary
- Posted: January 31, 2009
- Author(s): Steven Hill
- Publication: Sacramento Bee
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Top two primaries decrease voter choice in elections. Instant runoff voting would be a better choice for California -
Wash. considers online voting for overseas voters
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Senate Vacancies
- Posted: January 29, 2009
- Categories: FairVote
Wafting through the Winds of Change is the stench of 19th century political gamesmanship and cronyism: The undemocratic and undignified scrum among our country's political insiders -- to fill four prominent US Senate vacancies -- would have been familiar to Americans of 100-plus years past, when all Senators were appointed by the powerful.