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

February 2, 2011 By liveandletlive 12 Comments

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 11 Comments

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 21 Comments

------------------------------------------------------------ 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 9 Comments

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 1 Comment

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 30 Comments

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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Yikes.

Adam Bass@AdamBassWCCS

The idea of a Pro Life Trump supporter winning Suffolk 19 is not out of the ordinary. Winthrop is particular is much more right leaning that Revere. And Revere got severely out voted. When Capobianco had his story, that left you with two progressives. #mapoli

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Jo_ComerfordJo Comerford@Jo_Comerford·
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.@CDCgov dir. @RWalensky, once part of MA's #COVID19 advsy board, said

"Now is not the time to relax the critical safeguards that we know can stop the spread of COVID-19 ... not when we are so close."

But @MassGovernor pushes to reopen.

Who is advising Gov. Baker now?

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JoeCurtatoneJoseph A. Curtatone@JoeCurtatone·
1 Mar

It's time to state outright that Charlie Baker's science advisory team is the Chamber of Commerce. That's why we were slow to act last year, why our public health network got ignored on vaccines & why our reopenings have flown in the face of data, expert advice & common sense. https://twitter.com/MikeConnollyMA/status/1366423893276303364

Mike Connolly@MikeConnollyMA

Just reiterating my COVID philosophy: Instead of bucking advice from the CDC and Dr. Fauci (by further reopening the Mass. economy), we should #TaxTheRich and use the new revenue to provide cash relief to people in need and small businesses while also investing in health equity.

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2 Mar

He’s running

Simón Ríos@simonfrios

Mayor Joe Curtatone announces this is his final year as mayor of Somerville. @WBUR

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blkahnBrian Kahn@blkahn·
28 Feb

A Rhode Island-sized piece of ice just broke of Antarctica. The video of the breach in a 500-foot thick Brunt Ice Shelf is absolutely staggering

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