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December 18th 2002
Healthy Next Steps for Democracy in Santa Monica Part II
Santa Monica Mirror

The introduction of the single transferable vote to Santa Monica's existing proportional representation system is posed as an improvement.

December 18th 2002
Healthy Next Steps for Democracy in Santa Monica � Part II
Santa Monica Mirror

Commentary by Santa Monica City Councilmember Michael Feinstein.

December 11th 2002
Goodbye to December runoffs
San Francisco Examiner

Steven Hill extols the advantages of San Francisco's recent decision to adopt instant runoff voting (IRV), including: no costly, low-turnout runoff elections and less negative ad campaigning.

December 6th 2002
Petition for new campus election methods finished

UC Davis' Green Party submitted a petition to the student governing body to implement instant runoff voting and proportional representation for student elections.

November 25th 2002
Instant runoffs for the future
San Francisco Examiner

The advantages of instant runoff voting (IRV) to bolstering voter turnout and preventing the "spoiler effect," especially of Green Party success as it may interfere with electing Democrats, are noted in this article.

November 25th 2002

Daily Standard

In this letter to the editor, an advocate of Californians for Electoral Reform points out that the remedy to the spoiler effect is not eliminating third parties, but abandoning the plurality voting in favor of instant runoff voting (IRV).

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