September 19th 2002
Latest Florida Turmoil Holds Some Lessons for Other Places Debuting New Electronic Systems
ElectionLine.org

In response to Florida's election debaukle, several localities have followed suit and switched to cutting-edge electronic machines for the 2002 elections.

September 19th 2002
Formulas For a Clean Election

FairVote's Matthew Cossolotto argues that Congress needs to pass more meaningful election reform legislation, such as proportional voting methods or instant runoff voting (IRV), to ensure that each vote counts.

September 19th 2002
Instant runoff voting can give us majority rule in a four-party state
St. Paul Pioneer Press

September 18th 2002
Blues of The Greens: An invigorating candidate is unjustly pushed to the sidelines
The Economist

Peter Camejo, the Green Party candidate for California governor, would face much less animosity if California were to adopt instant-runoff voting ballot measures.

September 17th 2002
Let's try instant runoff voting
Boston Globe

Mass Vote's Gibran Rivera calls for instant runoff voting in her letter to the editor.

September 16th 2002
A way to motivate America's 'orphaned voters'
Seattle Times

Steven Hill's new book, Fixing Elections, reminds voters that we need to experiment with a more sensitive electoral system that will reduce partisanship and encourage people to vote.

September 13th 2002
We vote only to confirm the inevitable
Durham Herald-Sun

With the winner-take-all system so deeply entrenched in our voting system, elections, like those in Durham, are rendered highly non-competitive.

September 12th 2002
Finger-pointing in Florida, talk of recount and worries about November elections

AP report on 2002 election problems in Florida and other jurisdictions. Heavy attention was on these elections, being the first large ones following the close, disputed 2000 Florida presidential race. FairVote's Rob Richie comments on the widespread

September 9th 2002
Election runoffs tradition in South; Majority rule hearkens back to Democrat days
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Runoffs have a long history in the South but were more relevant in the past when the Democratic primary runoff was more like the general election. Today, lower voter turnout and election costs have lowered the value of runoffs. FairVote's Rob Richie

September 1st 2002
Vassar Latest College to Adopt Choice Voting and

Vassar Student working for FairVote gets IRV bill passed at Vassar

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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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