“Op-ed: The Thanksgiving table approach to fixing American politics”
Ben Raderstorf and Mindy Finn Miami Herald oped.
Category Archives: alternative voting systems
“Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Equality, Proportionality, and Our Abridged Voting Rights Regime”
New from Michael Latner. Abstract:
What constraints should the protection of political equality place on the design of electoral systems? With the exception of requiring approximate population equality across a jurisdiction’s districts, the U.S. voting rights regime accepts substantial disproportionality… Continue reading
“Fusion Could Lower the Temperature”
Bill Galston column in the WSJ:
There is mounting evidence that institutional changes below the level of constitutional amendments can increase opportunities for voters to express more-moderate sentiments. Fortunately, our federal system allows for more experimentation along these lines than… Continue reading
“Conservatives Should Look MoreClosely at Systemic Election Reforms”
New report from Kevin Kosar for AEI.
GOP Presidential Caucus in U.S. Virgin Islands Will Use Ranked Choice Voting
Parsons, Penrose, and Carroll: “Pico & Proportional Ranked Choice Voting”
The following is a guest post from G. Michael Parsons (Senior Legal Fellow, FairVote), Drew Penrose (Policy Consultant, FairVote), and Terrance Carroll (Senior Fellow for Voting and Democracy, FairVote):
The California Supreme Court’s decision in Pico Neighborhood Association v. City … Continue reading
“The False Promise of Party-Centric Reform”
Seamus Allen:
But what change to pursue? For the vast majority of the public, the end goal is clear: we want a democracy that provides representation for all. To accomplish that, the US needs to adopt some form of proportional… Continue reading
“Ranked choice voting deserves a place in presidential primaries”
Dave Daley oped in the Boston Globe.
Cal. Supreme Court decides CVRA case
The California Supreme Court is out with an important opinion today in Pico Neighborhood Ass’n v. City of Santa Monica: a ruling on the California Voting Rights Act and some of the ways in which it’s distinct from (and… Continue reading
“Sorting Out the Kinks in Ranked-Choice Voting”
Walter Olson, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, has this comment on the Arlington (VA) county board’s recent decision not to use ranked-choice voting in its upcoming general election. He concludes “it’s too soon to pronounce whether Saturday’s announcement represents… Continue reading
ASU Report on Voter Attitudes about Elections
From the hotbed — no pun intended (sorry Arizonans, I know it’s been sweltering) — of election denialism comes this report by Arizona State’s Center for Independent and Sustainable Democracy. Highlights from the press release:
Arizona voters strongly support… Continue reading
“Another campaign complaint filed against opponents of Alaska ranked choice voting”
Alaska Public Media:
On Monday, Alaskans for Better Elections filed a complaint against former Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka, a nonprofit that she operates and Alaskans for Honest Elections, which is campaigning to repeal ranked choice voting in… Continue reading
“Arlington reverses use of ranked-choice voting system for fall elections”
WaPo:
The Arlington County Board declined to move forward Saturday with ranked-choice voting for November’s general election, halting the Northern Virginia suburb’s experiment with the increasingly popular voting system, for now.
Local lawmakers had voted last fall to institute… Continue reading
“Column: Think our politics stink? Look north — to Alaska”
Mark Barabak LAT column:
The notion is that by competing en masse not just to finish first but also to be voters’ second choice, successful candidates will have to appeal to a broader segment of the electorate.
As experts recently explained in… Continue reading