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IRV Bill needs co-sponsors. Call your Reps – deadline Feb 4th.

February 2, 2011 By liveandletlive

HD 02026 is being introduced by Representative Alice Wolf of Cambridge to allow cities and towns to adopt a "ranked choice" or "instant runoff" form of voting. Please ask your state representative and state senator to co-sponsor (deadline … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: elections, irv, majority-vs-plurality, true-representation.

IRV Senate Poll

September 28, 2009 By davemb

Various good-government types are circulating a petition to establish Instant-Runoff Voting (IRV) in Massachusetts elections.  In IRV, voters rank all candidates and their vote is cast for their highest-preferred candidate among those … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: alan-khazei, irv, ma-sen, martha-coakley, massachusetts, mike-capuano, steve-pagliuca

VOTER CHOICE (IRV) ballot referendum campaign needs help now!

September 20, 2009 By amfriedman

------------------------------------------------------------ VOTER CHOICE MASSACHUSETTS - PETITION DRIVE "More Voices, Real Choices" Sept 11th - Nov 18th ------------------------------------------------------------ ENDORSEMENTS + The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: choice-voting, common-cause, election-reform, electoral-reform, instant-runoff-voting, irv, massvote, pr, preliminaries, preliminary, proportional-representation, ranked-choice-voting, split-vote, spoiler, third-parties

Keep Running, Ralph

February 25, 2008 By saintkermit

You can continue whining about Nader if you want to, but at least realize the following (from http://www.gp.org): The Supreme Court Spoiled: Al Gore won the 2000 election. George W. Bush became President when a biased US Supreme Court … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2000, 2004, bush, democrats, gore, green-party, irv, kerry, nader, rank-choice, spoiler

Mock Presidential Primary… with IRV!

February 23, 2007 By sk-jim

Even though it is still too gosh-darned early to be picking a Democratic presidential nominee, the New Haven Advocate is offering an opportunity to express your preference(s) using instant runoff voting.  Click here to cast your vote - … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2008, democrats, instant-runoff-voting, irv, national, president

A brief examination of voting systems

July 1, 2006 By dcsohl

Fusion voting is an extension of FPTP that relies on parties. Parties are not essential to FPTP, but they inevitably creep in, and fusion takes advantage of this. In classical FPTP at a general election, each party nominates a candidate, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: condorcet, fusion, irv, stv, voting

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REALLY @GOP?! 🙄👇🏾 And how many House republicans who accepted ppp loan & loan forgiveness who voted for resolution denouncing socialism?! #UrbanAgenda #BOSpoli #MApoli

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100 House Democrats voted against a resolution denouncing socialism.

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Gov. Maura Healey said that she will not introduce legislation that would make her office subject to the Massachusetts Public Records Law. https://buff.ly/3DANOPI

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NOAA: Average ground temperature in north hemisphere has decreased 1/2 degree in 25 years.

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