Rob Richie's Recent Journal
Articles & Chapters
August 2004
(All available as downloadable attachments)
"Steps
Toward Making Every Vote Count: Electoral System Reform in Canada and its
Provinces" (Henry Milner, editor; Broadview Press, 2004): A
review of efforts on behalf of full representation in the United States since
the formation of the Center for Voting and Democracy in 1992. Part of a new book
on the movement for full representation in Canada.
An "Election
Law Journal" symposium on Democracy and Elections in North
America" (Volume 3, Number 3 2004): A discussion of the case for instant
runoff voting for one-winner office elections in the United States and how those
arguments may also apply for single-winner elections in Canada and Mexico. Part
of a special collection of articles on democracy in North America in Election
Law Journal.
On
full representation and redistricting reform (from the National
Civic Review): An argument for how full representation voting methods must play
a central role in increasingly urgent need to reform redistricting in the United
States.
On
building a pro-democracy movement in the United States (from the
National Civic Review): A call for a campaign for an affirmative right to vote
in the U.S. Constitution and the merits of multi-issue pro-democracy organizing
at a state level.
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