by FairVote Minnesota | Oct 2, 2020 | Featured News, News and Opinion
Andrew Yang and Bill Weld in USA Today: Picking our president every four years is perhaps the most important decision Americans make. Yet the process both major political parties use for nominating our candidates is arcane, outdated and in need of improvement. Trust...
by FairVote Minnesota | Sep 21, 2020 | Featured News, Homepage Resources, News and Opinion
Cecily Hines and Miles Rapoport in Medium / Harvard Ash Center: Nationwide, there is increasing discussion about the advantages of Ranked Choice Voting (RCV). Particularly in this historic period of polarization and discord, RCV is gaining momentum because it offers...
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 | Feb 26, 2020 | News and Opinion
By the New York Times Editorial Board How fitting that Twitter — a social media platform apparently built for bickering — co-sponsored a political debate on Tuesday night that often descended into an unintelligible screaming match among too many candidates whose...
