May 16th 2009High schoolers get a lesson in votingThe Gainesville Sun
High school voter registration efforts have increased and improved in light of Florida's uniform voter registration age of 16 years-old.
May 15th 2009City attorney: IRV vote must waitBurlington Free Press
Article on Burlington City Attorney's decision that any attempt to repeal instant runoff voting must come during a regularly scheduled election, not during a special election.
May 15th 2009Give Ranked Choice a ChanceThe Melon
Op-ed in Tacoma blog The Melon by FairVote Democracy Fellow Erik Connell on why Pierce County residents should vote to keep ranked choice voting this November.
May 14th 2009No more appointed senatorsBaltimore Sun
FairVote's David Segal argues for an end to the filling of Senate vacancies by appointment, and supports a national movement to have those vacancies filled through democratic elections.
May 14th 2009Cary's mistakeNews and Observer
Letter to the Editor by Cary, NC resident Carol Everett expressing her disappointment in the Town Council's decision not to continue to participate in the state's instant runoff voting pilot.
May 14th 2009Let's Make Every Vote Count The Nation
Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of the Nation magazine, highlights FairVote's research in an important piece on the "broad support" growing in the states for the National Popular Vote plan to elect the president.
May 13th 2009The Supreme Court�s Hostility to the Voting Rights Act The New York Times
The New York Times' Adam Cohen argues for the Supreme Court to uphold Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.
May 13th 2009Instant runoff voting gets Supreme Court hearingMinnesota Public Radio
Coverage of the Minnesota Supreme Court case on ranked choice voting's constitutionality.
May 13th 2009Representative Democracy: Two Steps ForwardThe Daily Herald
The executive director of the Economic Opportunity Institute heralds the passage of the National Popular Vote bill in Washington state.
May 11th 2009Bill promotes teen voter registrationThe Charlotte Observer
North Carolina's bi-partisan 16-year-old advance registration and civics education bill unanimously passed the Election Law and Campaign Finance Reform committee last week.
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