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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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Formal endorsements continue to roll in for the National Popular Vote Plan, including new support from the Latino Congreso and the Asian American Action Fund, as well as an increasing number of state level groups.
FairVote board member, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) proposed a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to vote. With the support of fifteen co-sponsors, Rep. Jackson’s amendment would explicitly guarantee all Americans the right to vote, which would eliminate the patchwork system of election laws that is currently in place. Because there is no right to vote clearly stated in the U.S. Constitution, individual states set their own electoral policies and procedures in areas such as ballot design, polling hours, voting equipment, voter registration requirements and ex-felon voting rights. As a result, our electoral system is divided into 50 states, more than 3000 counties and approximately 13,000 voting districts, all separate and unequal.