Content Tagged with "African Americans"
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'Instant Runoff' voting reform can empower communities of color
- Posted: July 16, 2008
- Author(s): Isaac Peterson, III
- Publication: Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
News analysis of instant runoff voting and communities of color.
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Majority Rule at Last
- Posted: April 30, 2008
- Author(s): Michael Waldman
- Publication: Washington Monthly
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
The Brennan Center's Michael Waldman lays out the case for the National Popular Vote Plan for electing the president. -
Right to Vote Hangs in the Balance
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My view: Charter changes would inspire more voters
- Posted: February 10, 2008
- Author(s): John Otter
- Publication: Santa Fe New Mexican
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
Local Santa Fe activist believes ranked choice voting and public financing are good for the city. -
To the Spoilers Belong the Victors
- Posted: August 30, 2007
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote
The President of the United States is tasked with being the leader of the entire country, including those who did not vote for him or her. Unlike Congress, where different viewpoints are represented in one body (even if only one party happens to be in control at any given time), a president is in office because his or her side won, and the other lost.
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Federal Court of Appeals Upholds Cumulative Voting
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Growing Polarization
- Posted: August 23, 2007
- Categories: FairVote
In lecterns in New Hampshire, town hall meetings in Iowa, and television studios inside the Beltway, candidates, pundits, and just about everyone else bemoan the growing polarization of the American electorate. As the political tectonic plates slowly shift, the seismic shocks cause the fault lines between red and blue to rent themselves even farther apart, while swing voters scramble so as not to fall into the widening gap. Surely, it can’t be as bad as all that!
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Florida Restores Voting Rights
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SCOTUS Will Hear Washington Top-two Primary Case
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IRV on the Ballot in Pierce County, Washington