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Up Next. New Voting Methods. New Bill Introduced In Oregon Would Make History with STAR Voting. March 30, 2021. The. Equal Vote Coalition. announced Monday that a historic new bill has been introduced in the Oregon State House that would establish STAR…

Sarah Lyons. Sarah Lyons is the Director of Communications at IndependentVoting.org, a national association of independents. She is a native of Oregon and resides in New York City.…

is the last chance Arkansas, Nevada, North Dakota and Oregon have to make the switch to an independent redistricting commission before maps are redrawn for the new decade. But the Covid-19 pandemic has made gathering signatures to qualify for the ballot…

Independent Party of Oregon Makes History with New Voting Method. The third-largest political party in Oregon is answering the question: Can political parties conduct their own primary elections? The short answer: Yes, and the party is using this freedom…

by mail: Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah and Washington. It took them many years to develop their systems, safeguards and capacity to make such all-mail-in elections possible. There are a few salient problems with this national push to move ballots to the…

system and transform its electoral process nationwide. It could build on the tremendous momentum the reform community continues to see. The Independent Party of Oregon to Make History with Brand New Voting System. For the first time in history, STAR…

introduced in Oregon, and. garnered enough signatures in Lane County. to qualify for the November 2018 ballot. The measure, however, was defeated by a small margin of votes. Advocates say that when you look at 5 qualities of reform (Equality, Honesty…

of democracy is how reformers figure out what proposals are needed to best serve voters. Results Are In For First Election to Use STAR Voting. The Independent Part of Oregon made history by being the first to use STAR (Score Then Automatic Runoff) voting…

distinction from "everyone") a ballot without a request. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, Colorado, Hawaii, Utah, Washington and Oregon were already vote-by-mail states. But now California, Nevada and Vermont will also automatically send ballots to registered voters…

five states — Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah and Washington — that now send everyone a ballot for all elections. Eight states are planning to send absentee ballot applications to all registered voters this fall as a way of encouraging as many people as…