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Pro-Voter Groups Stand Up for Safer, Fairer Elections in This Crisis
‘Anger.’ ‘Frustration.’ ‘Controversy.’ ‘Chaos.’ Those were among the words used to describe Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary as voters were given a choice: Risk their health to vote in-person or have no vo ...
08 Apr, 2020
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12 min read
Opinion: Ranked Choice Voting Must Be A Part of the Coronavirus Elections Fix
Richie is president and Daley a senior fellow at FairVote, a nonpartisan electoral reform group that promotes ranked-choice voting. This month Daley published "Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Bac ...
30 Mar, 2020
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5 min read
Sanders Criticizes California for Denying Independent Voters the Right to Vote
All the momentum in the 2020 Democratic presidential race appears to be behind US Senator Bernie Sanders after another victory in Nevada over the weekend. Now, headed into the most consequential Super ...
26 Feb, 2020
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14 min read
Can't Argue With Science: MIT Study Supports Growing Demands to Unrig US Elections
The beginning of the 2020 presidential election was an unmitigated disaster. Results that should have been reported the night-of in Iowa instead took days as a result of technical issues with an app a ...
11 Feb, 2020
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10 min read
Groundbreaking Poll Shows One Primary Rival Beats Biden in Head-to-Head Contest
In a first-of-its-kind poll, FairVote partnered with YouGov to showcase the benefits of ranked choice voting to determine the true preferences of Democratic voters in a crowded 2020 field.
12 Sep, 2019
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3 min read
Groundbreaking Poll Shows One Primary Rival Beats Biden in Head-to-Head Contest
In a first-of-its-kind poll, FairVote partnered with YouGov to showcase the benefits of ranked choice voting to determine the true preferences of Democratic voters in a crowded 2020 field. Instead of ...
12 Sep, 2019
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3 min read
Giving Millions of Citizens A Better Way To Vote
New York City voters could soon adopt a fairer, more empowering, and more representative voting method in November, while other states look to join Maine in making history with ranked choice voting in ...
04 Sep, 2019
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1 min read
Ranked Choice Voting for Presidential Elections Headed to Maine Governor's Desk
AUGUSTA, MAINE - Ranked choice voting for the 2020 presidential primary and to determine Electoral College votes is on its way to the desk of Maine Governor Janet Mills. The State Senate passed the ra ...
26 Aug, 2019
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1 min read
6 Big Fights Against Voter Suppression That Neither Party Wants You To Know About
There is one important truth about the state of US politics, and that is an increasing number of Americans understand that the system is rigged to put the interests of two private political parties an ...
21 Aug, 2019
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15 min read
DNC Debate Exclusions Are Arbitrary and Anti-Democratic
Detroit, MI – Increasing uproar over the Democratic Party’s arbitrary debate exclusions reveals questions about the party’s democratic values.Out of 25 major candidates vying to be the Democratic nomi ...
23 Jul, 2019
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4 min read