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Colorado's Kent Thiry, Catherine Kanter from Better Boundaries Utah, Clean Missouri's Sean Soendker Nicholson. Photo Credit: USC Schwarzenegger Institute. Stay Informed. Get our exclusive. Nonpartisan Reform Report. delivered to your inbox twice a month. Comments. Auto Pager Link…

the option of using ranked choice voting, similar to the bill that was passed in Utah last year, which has led to 6 cities showing interest in adopting RCV for their elections. In addition to these bills, several legislators in Maine have introduced…

bright red now on the Electoral College map: Wyoming (83 percent). Arkansas (83 percent). New Hampshire (82 percent). Maine (82 percent). Alabama (81 percent). Massachusetts (80 percent). West Virginia (80 percent). Utah (78 percent). Mississippi (78 percent…

political gerrymandering, spoke powerfully to the idea that everyone has a place in this critical work. Catherine Kanter, who led a similar successful effort in Utah, hammered home the point that it’s up to local organizing, it’s up to all of us, to take it into…

to unanimous votes in both chambers in favor of constitutional amendments ending gerrymandering. In Florida, the Koch brothers helped fund the campaign for felon enfranchisement. Independent redistricting won in deep red Utah with campaign ads featuring…

want to follow in Maine’s footsteps and adopt ranked choice voting at the state level, including a promising effort in Massachusetts (see more below), and FairVote staff are devoting their attention to supporting allies in Utah (where several cities may use…

may not know is that 5 states (Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah, and Washington) have all-mail voting systems in which ballots are automatically sent to every registered voter. What is especially notable about the states that use all-mail systems is that they…

authentic. At our age we don’t have anything personal to gain, we don’t have an agenda. The authenticity and our honesty in wanting to make North Dakota a better place for our grandkids did the trick.”. Similar stories came out of Missouri, Utah, Florida, and…

presidential elections.Voters in four states passed measures in 2018 to rein in partisan gerrymandering: Colorado, Utah, Missouri, and Michigan.FairVote won a huge victory when Maine enacted ranked choice voting in a 2016 initiative and was able to retain…