Come join The New Yorker’s award-winning essayist Hendrik Hertzberg, former presidential candidate John Anderson and their fellow FairVote board members Edward Hailes, Malia Lazu, Jamin Raskin, Bill Redpath, and Cynthia Terrell to hear about FairVote’s campaign for real democracy at all levels of government in the United States – from the White House to Takoma Park.

    FairVote – The Center for Voting and Democracy is a national organization based in Takoma Park that is the leading national advocate for reforming winner-take-all elections systems, direct election of the president and a constitutional right to vote.

    Two of its local campaigns for this fall are a ballot measure for instant runoff voting in Takoma Park and launching a D.C. metropolitan area call to register all students to vote before they leave high school. See www.fairvote.org

       
  



 
Hendrik Hertzberg was editor of the New Republic and President Jimmy Carter’s chief speechwriter from 1979 to 1981. Now out in paperback, his highly praised essay collection Politics: Observations and Arguments includes several powerful commentaries making the case for instant runoff voting and proportional representation.