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FairVote's Proposed Ranked Choice Voting Act
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FairVote and Civinomics Release RCV App
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What the Republican Party Could Learn from the Oscars
- Posted: August 3, 2015
- Author(s): Rob Richie
- Categories: Home
The Republican Party is holding its first presidential debate on August 6, to be televised on Fox News. Fox will limit the debate to ten participants, but they could learn how to make sure all significant voices are heard from nominations for the Academy Awards.
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Second Choices Mean a Second Chance to Determine Real GOP Frontrunner
- Posted: July 25, 2015
- Author(s): Rob Richie, Molly Rockett
- Categories: Home
It's time for pollsters to be more innovative in surveys of multi-candidate fields like the 2016 presidential nomination contest. A new Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey makes a good start in asking for second choices and reporting the totals for "pairings" of candidates. Doing so allow a simulation of ranked choice voting.
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Progress for FairVote's Reforms
- Posted: July 16, 2015
- Categories: Home
We are pleased to see new progress and new support for our Reform 2020 reform agenda. Here are highlights:
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Primary Elections 2016: Can You Vote?
- Posted: July 9, 2015
- Author(s): Drew Spencer, John Werner
- Categories: Home
When it comes time to vote in the 2016 congressional primary elections, will you be allowed to vote in the primary of your choice? We’ve updated our analysis on every state’s rules for its primary elections: open primaries, closed primaries, “semi-closed” primaries, and the handful of states that do something else entirely. -
Independent Commissions Win in Court - But What's Next?
- Posted: June 29, 2015
- Author(s): Drew Spencer
- Categories: Home
The U.S. Supreme Court made the right decision in upholding independent redistricting commissions, however these commissions still do not resolve the problems that come with single-winner districts. We need Congress to replace our current system with multi-winner districts with ranked choice voting to truly put the power back in the people's hands. -
The 2015 Turkish Election: A More Proportional Result than Usual
- Posted: June 26, 2015
- Categories: Europe, Home, International Elections, Elections Worldwide
The Turkish election in June 2015 was remarkable for many reasons. In this short piece, FairVote's Robert Buderi explores the ins and outs of the 2015 campaign and the operation of Turkey's party list proportional system. Buderi shows that a high national threshold in a proportional representation system tends to undermine the proportionality of election results and introduce some of the problems rife in winner-take-all plurality systems like the US and Britain.
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Progress for FairVote's Reforms
- Posted: June 25, 2015
- Categories: Home
We are pleased to see new progress and new support for our Reform 2020 reform agenda. Here are highlights:
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“Government of Few” Report Highlights New Tools Exposing our Broken Democracy
- Posted: June 12, 2015
- Author(s): Rob Richie
- Categories: Home, FairVote
FairVote today released Government of the Few in the “Decided Dozen" -- Frozen Representation and the Distorted Demographics of Decisive Primary Elections. Report authors Andrew Douglas and Zack Avre zero in on the “Decided Dozen”—12 states where control over the state legislature and the outcome of the great majority of general election races is never in doubt, leaving the only meaningful choices and power to voters in low turnout, unrepresentative primary contests. The report highlights two important analytic tools FairVote will use for a series of reports this summer on the broken nature of our representative democracy.