by FairVote Minnesota | Jul 28, 2020 | News and Opinion
Lee Drutman in The Fulcrum. Drutman is a senior fellow at the think tank New America and author of the forthcoming “Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America.” Electoral reform is hot these days. Ranked-choice voting...
by FairVote Minnesota | Jul 1, 2020 | Featured News, News and Opinion
Lee Drutman in a Cato Institute Policy Report. As we lurch toward another national election, steel yourself for the familiar ride: incendiary threat rhetoric about the end of America as we know it; cramped debates where nobody proposes anything new and nobody changes...
by FairVote Minnesota | Jun 17, 2020 | News and Opinion
AAAS: Introduce Ranked Choice Voting Most election outcomes in the United States are determined by winner-take-all electoral systems. The candidate who receives the plurality of votes—that is, more than any other candidate, though not necessarily a majority—wins the...
by FairVote Minnesota | Jun 2, 2020 | Letter to the Editor
Jeanne Massey: As I write this today, my heart is broken – for my city, for George Floyd and his family, and for our black and brown citizens who are disproportionately impacted by police violence. Seeing Mr. Floyd pinned to the ground pleading for his life is...
by FairVote Minnesota | May 21, 2020 | Event
Wow! Over 400 people tuned in on May 6 to hear from national leaders about dangers facing our democracy and what we can do about it. Polarization in a Time of Crisis, with author and award-winning political scientist Lee Drutman and U.S. Congressman Dean Phillips, was...
