November 30th 2002
Letters
Los Angeles Times

Instant runoff voting (IRV), better than using open primaries or limiting the choice in elections to two candidates, would allow more participation in elections for voters.

November 29th 2002
Election Day replay poses avoidable problems
USA Today

Instant runoff voting (IRV) is posed as an alternative to costly runoffs in Louisianna, that still ensures candidates will have to get a majority of the vote to win.

November 28th 2002
Green Party a thorn in side of Democrats
Lansing State Journal

Green Party is said to be responsible for Republicans victories, because it takes votes of Democrats, as it was 2000 presidential elections.

November 28th 2002
Party Poopers:
Boston Phoenix

November 28th 2002
Instant Runoff Voting: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Business Week

Letter to the editor advocating IRV as a solution to the spoiler problem.

November 25th 2002
Distribution of parliamentary seats is unfair
East African Standard

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).

November 24th 2002
Austrians Begin Voting, Outcome Wide Open
Reuters

November 23rd 2002
Law Could Ease Land Rows
The East African Standard

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IRV Soars in Twin Cities, FairVote Corrects the Pundits on Meaning of Election Night '09
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.

And as pundits try to make hay out of the national implications of Tuesday’s gubernatorial elections, Rob Richie in the Huffington Post concludes that the gubernatorial elections have little bearing on federal elections.

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