This is crunch time for the national instant runoff voting movement. Alaska votes Tuesday. We could WIN this election. Polls show the vote to be very close,...
Silver lining time, everybody! The campaign to slowly build the consensus for instant runoff voting continues. Our latest convert: Senator John McCain! You can...
Maybe someone should talk to former VA Governer Doug Wilder. He is starting a movement to get a ³mayor-at-large² system in Richmond and he¹s talking about a...
This sounds very promising -- does anyone know where Governor Wilder is based? Can someone draft a letter to him? Maybe it can come from CVD. Can someone find...
Here is an article. I have no idea how to reach former Gov Wilder or where he is based... http://www.pilotonline.com/opinion/op0804mar.html...
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Harry Landers
harry@...
Aug 29, 2002 9:29 pm
Gov. Wilder is associated with the Center for Public Policy at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. The mail address is P. O. Box 842028, Richmond, VA...
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Mike Ogilvie
mogilvie@...
Sep 3, 2002 2:56 pm
I would love to do some work on this. I had been crazy busy the last couple of months. But now that our house is pretty much complete and we've moved in (just...
Hi all, I saw this column on IRV in a Richmond paper from a Lexis search, but can't find it on the web. Can anyone find this column in a paper edition, or a ...
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Harry Landers
harry@...
Sep 3, 2002 9:32 pm
Here's a link to the article on the Richmond Times-Dispatch website. The catch is that it's only viewable by subscription. Harry Landers...
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Mike Ogilvie
mogilvie@...
Sep 3, 2002 9:32 pm
I found it on the Richmond Times-Dispatch website (http://www.timesdispatch.com), but you have to pay for a subscription to the site to get to it. I can get to...
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Harry Landers
harry@...
Sep 3, 2002 9:36 pm
Really, here's the link to the Richmond Times-Dispatch article. http://www.archivesva.com/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=3d7528eb15ae19Mpqaweb1P1100 3&doc=results.html...
FYI, I have submitted the following to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Marc :-) ... TIMES-DISPATCH SUBMISSION Hi, there. I wanted to submit the Letter to the...
FYI, this letter ran in today's Richmond Times-Dispatch: Instant Runoff System Wins Yes Vote Editor, Times-Dispatch: I wanted to write and thank Ray McAllister...
http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/vametro/MGB1Z4FOV5D.html Egos clash over strong mayor issue MICHAEL PAUL WILLIAMS TIMES-DISPATCH COLUMNIST Sep 09, 2002 I...
Dear fellow IRV activists, I'm e-mailing you now because some of us northern virginia activists have an event going on in Arlington on Saturday 9/21/02 that I...
Please read and forward... Young Candidates' Network WHY To link all candidates (aged 30 and under) from all parties and for all levels of office, creating...
Jen, I would suggest naming the town you live in, to see if there's anyone else on the list who lives close to you and would be interested in getting something...
The Center for Voting and Democracy has something on this on our website at www.fairvote.org (just search for Condorcet). My take is that the worst voting...
Dear Tommy, the main problem of Condorcet methods is that there is no such thing as "proportional representation by the Condorcet method". The main argument of...
More news regarding the mayor-at-large proposal. According to this article runoffs are part of the plan. How hard would it be to include support for instant...
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Mike Ogilvie
mogilvie@...
Jan 7, 2003 7:13 pm
I think the large hurdle facing IRV in Richmond are the balloting machines. I believe that most districts (or at least a lot of districts) still use mechanical...
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witof7
witof7@...
Jan 7, 2003 9:06 pm
Here in Culpeper County, we also use the lever machines... Let me know what I can do. I am a mom of five and pretty busy at that with career and all. BUt if...
The commission calls for regular adoption of runoff elections for Mayor/Vice-Mayor. How can we get this changed to instant runoff? I've got some IRV...
Elected Mayor: No One District Gets Disenfranchised MICHAEL BYRNE TIMES-DISPATCH COLUMNIST Apr 25, 2003 For the past 23 years I have worked in Shockoe Slip. As...
