The Center for Voting and Democracy is honored to be one of the fifty organizations selected by Working Assets for support in 2003.
If you are a customer of any Working Assets service, you can vote to allocate funds to the Center. If you are not a customer, you can sign up for long distance, cell phone or credit card services or by making even a single purchase on the ShopForChange website.
You can then choose to allocate your vote equally among all 50 groups, or you can assign your vote to specific groups.
We ask you to consider giving all (or most) of your vote to the Center for Voting and Democracy, which is the fifth organization listed under Civil Rights.
To vote for the Center, go to the voting page and then:
1. Check off all the services you have (long distance, credit card, etc.) and click on continue,
2. Under "Select one," click on "Individual Groups,"
3. Scroll down to "Civil Rights" and next to the Center for Voting and Democracy, type in the percent (100, we hope) of your vote that you want to allocate to CVD, click continue, and
4. Type in your name, email and phone number and click on "Finish."
If you're a Working Assets customer, please consider making your vote count for fair elections!
If you are a customer of any Working Assets service, you can vote to allocate funds to the Center. If you are not a customer, you can sign up for long distance, cell phone or credit card services or by making even a single purchase on the ShopForChange website.
You can then choose to allocate your vote equally among all 50 groups, or you can assign your vote to specific groups.
We ask you to consider giving all (or most) of your vote to the Center for Voting and Democracy, which is the fifth organization listed under Civil Rights.
To vote for the Center, go to the voting page and then:
1. Check off all the services you have (long distance, credit card, etc.) and click on continue,
2. Under "Select one," click on "Individual Groups,"
3. Scroll down to "Civil Rights" and next to the Center for Voting and Democracy, type in the percent (100, we hope) of your vote that you want to allocate to CVD, click continue, and
4. Type in your name, email and phone number and click on "Finish."
If you're a Working Assets customer, please consider making your vote count for fair elections!
Election Day '09 was a roller-coaster for election reformers. Instant runoff voting had a great night in Minnesota, where St. Paul voters chose to implement IRV for its city elections, and Minneapolis voters used IRV for the first time—with local media touting it as a big success. As the Star-Tribune noted in endorsing IRV for St. Paul, Tuesday’s elections give the Twin Cities a chance to show the whole state of Minnesota the benefits of adopting IRV. There were disappointments in Lowell and Pierce County too, but high-profile multi-candidate races in New Jersey and New York keep policymakers focused on ways to reform elections; the Baltimore Sun and Miami Herald were among many newspapers publishing commentary from FairVote board member and former presidential candidate John Anderson on how IRV can mitigate the problems of plurality elections.