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Featured Media:August 10th 2009 Commentary: A cure for the political nomination process Cleveland Plain Dealer FairVote's Rob Richie and Paul Fidalgo offer a way to give everyone a say in presidential nominations while retaining the valuable state-by-state evaluation process. This piece also ran in McClatchy's newswire. October 29th 2009 Plurality voting rule is the real election spoiler Baltimore Sun In the midst of 3-way races in NJ and NY, FairVote board member and 1980 presidential candidate John Anderson makes the case for IRV over our flawed plurality system. October 19th 2009 A better election system Lowell Sun Election expert Doug Amy explains how choice voting can "inject new blood" into the elections of Lowell (MA), and give voters a greater incentive to participate. October 19th 2009 Mandatory Voting? Automatic Registration? How Un-American! Huffington Post President of Air America Media, Mark Green, explains why Instant Runoff Voting, Automatic Registration and Mandatory Voting are not only important but could lead to a more democratic society. |
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U.S.
Congressman Alcee Hastings (D-FL) has re-introduced his Congress
Commission Act to study whether the House of Representatives should
increase in size and be elected by proportional voting systems. As
national debate about redistricting increases, we applaud Rep. Hastings
for seeking to spur debate and understaanding of how best to provide
fair representation, more electoral competition and greater
accountability.
Washington
Governor Christine Gregoire this week signed HB 1447, a bill
allowing instant runoff voting to be used for a five
year pilot project in the cities of Vancouver, Spokane, and Tacoma--the
second IRV law to pass this year.
Though Vancouver has already passed an IRV-authorizing charter
amendment, the city council now must move by 2007 to implement IRV
during the trial period to run from
2008-2013. Representative Jim Moeller's years of persistence have paid
off: the bill's chief sponsor initially lobbied the Vancouver council to
support
IRV before becoming a legislator.