“Ranked choice voting worked well in 2009”
Patrick O’Connor writes for the Star Tribune.
Category Archives: alternative voting systems
“Redistricting Likely to Hamper Democratic Efforts in 2014, Study Finds”
NYT’s The Caucus:
Thanks largely to the way Congressional districts were drawn in the latest round of redistricting, even a dramatic wave election like the one in 2008 that swept President Obama into power and added to Democratic majorities… Continue reading
“FairVote Releases Projections for the 2014 Congressional Elections”
Press release: “As part of its biennial Monopoly Politics series on the overriding dominance of partisanship in controlling the outcomes of American congressional elections, FairVote today released its initial projections for its Monopoly Politics 2014 report. The report projects… Continue reading
“District should adopt instant-runoff elections”
“California and the Limits of Independent Redistricting Commissions with Winner-Take-All”
FairVote:
Three months after the 2012 election, independent redistricting continues to gain attention as a panacea for American congressional elections. Making the case from the quantitative flank is Sam Wang, professor of neuroscience at Princeton and founder of the… Continue reading
” 7 Port Chester seats up for grabs; businessman challenges Mayor Pilla”
Cumulative voting as VRA remedy, played out in new election.
“In Defense of Ranked Choice Voting”
Richard DeLeon and Arend Lijphart have written this oped for the SF Chronicle.
“Democrats’ Edge in House Popular Vote Would Have Increased if All Seats Had Been Contested”
“A Representative Congress: Enhancing African American Voting Rights in the South with Choice Voting”
This item appears at FairVote.
“Clashing Mandates and the Role of Voting Structures; Obama Decisive Presidential Winner, but Majority of House Represented by Republicans in Districts won by Romney “
“The 2012 Elections and the Vanishing Congressional Moderate”
FairVote:
Key Stats:
Number of 20 most “centrist” Members from 112th Congress returning in 2013: 8
Number of House districts leaning more than 52% to 48% for one party that in 2011 were represented by a Member of another… Continue reading
“Libertarian acted as spoiler in Senate race, GOP says”
Billings Gazette: “U.S. Senate Libertarian candidate Dan Cox will tell you that it was never his intention to be a spoiler in one of the most closely watched races in the nation. He equally disliked both of his opponents’… Continue reading
Two from FairVote
“Al Benn’s Alabama: One person, seven votes? Chilton County voting is different”
Cumulative voting in Alabama.