Content Categorized with "Research & Analysis"
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Get 'Em (Ready to Vote) While They're Young
- Posted: May 26, 2009
- Author(s): Paul Fidalgo, David Segal
- Categories: Research & Analysis, Universal Voter Registration, FairVote, All Reports
A movement is growing within the states to swing the doors of our democracy wide open, encouraging and facilitating the active participation of young people in the electoral process.
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Universal Voter Registration: An International Perspective
- Posted: April 21, 2009
- Author(s): Eve Robert
- Categories: Research & Analysis, Universal Voter Registration, International Elections, FairVote, All Reports
The United States is one of the few democracies in the world where the government does not take any responsibility in registering its citizens. This one-of-a-kind, self-initiated voter registration process acts as a major barrier to voter turnout and leads to often inaccurate voter rolls.
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Delegating Democracy
- Posted: April 3, 2008
- Author(s): Rob Richie and Adam Fogel
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, Research & Analysis, FairVote, Presidential Nominations Reform, All Reports
Parties have great opportunities to review and improve their election systems by incorporating reforms that give more voters an equal voice and an equal vote. From representative delegate allocation regimes to ranked choice voting and expanded suffrage rights, a political party's nomination process can be a true laboratory of democracy.
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International Snapshot: Australia 2007
- Posted: January 1, 2008
- Author(s): Aurelie Marfort
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, Research & Analysis, Asia and Oceania, International Elections, FairVote
On November 24th 2007, Australia elected its House of Representatives with instant runoff voting (IRV), as it has for more than eight decades. After four straight election defeats, the Labor Party won a landslide majority of seats. Under IRV, Labor's initial 44% of first choices turned into a clear majority after considering the choices of supporters of third party candidates with too little support to win seats. The Green Party's 7.79% share of the national vote largely went to Labor in House races; that share earned several senate seats elected by proportional voting. Due in large part to compulsory voting, turnout was 94.77%; Australians rank near the top of national comparisons of voter satisfaction with their government.
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Fuzzy Math
- Posted: August 9, 2007
- Categories: Research & Analysis, FairVote
- In 2000, Al Gore won the popular vote by a small margin, but lost the Electoral College vote. Gore’s margin of victory in the popular vote was 0.52%, but Bush’s Electoral College margin of victory was 0.93%. Had a congressional district allocation been in place, Bush’s electoral vote margin of victory would have been 7.06%, eight times an already distorted result. (from FairVote’s new Wrong-Way Reforms for Allocating Electoral College Votes)
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A Survey and Analysis of Statewide Election Recounts, 1980-2006
- Posted: July 30, 2007
- Author(s): Rob Richie, Monideepa Talukdar
- Categories: Research & Analysis, FairVote, All Reports
NOTE: This report has been replaced. For updated information on recounts, see the new report: A Survey and Analysis of Statewide Election Recounts, 2000-2009
This report takes an in-depth look at election recount outcomes and practices in the United States, using data from statewide elections held between 1980 and 2006. The purpose is to quantify various aspects of the process, such as the frequency of recounts, vote differences involved, and recount outcomes, and analyze how these figures vary with the size of the electorate and recount methodology.
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E-Newsletter July 14, 2007
- Posted: July 14, 2007
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote Reformer E-Newsletters, National Popular Vote, D.C. Voting Rights, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Research & Analysis, FairVote
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International Snapshot: Scotland 2007
- Posted: July 11, 2007
- Author(s): Dan Tessler
- Categories: Europe, Research & Analysis, International Elections, FairVote, All Reports
On May 3, 2007, Scottish voters used two proportional voting systems simultaneously: for the first time ever, choice voting (or the single transferable vote) for local councils, and once again, mixed member proportional voting for the Scottish Parliament. The local council elections saw increased participation and broadly representative results. Despite the first-time use of choice voting alongside a completely different voting system, error rates were, on average, remarkably low. The MMP elections ensured proportionality in seat shares and arguably prevented a wrong-winner result. There was early controversy over error rates allegedly around 10%, but actual error rates were lower. Later research moreover confirmed that voter error was due to critical ballot design flaws.
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Assessing Instant Runoff Voting in Takoma Park (MD)
- Posted: March 29, 2007
- Author(s): Adam Bartolanzo
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, Research & Analysis, FairVote, All Reports
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The Feasibility of Instant Runoff Voting in Vermont
- Posted: March 9, 2007
- Author(s): Caleb Kleppner
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, Research & Analysis, FairVote, All Reports
FairVote commissioned a complementary report by Caleb Kleppner, one of the nation's foremost experts on the use and administration of ranked choice elections. This report lays out a full range of implementation options for Vermont and includes topics such as voting equipment, counting procedures and voter education programs.