Greetings from Richmond. Today Richmond citizens will vote for their Mayor for the first time in sixty some years. I am hoping this will mark the start of...
San Francisco Chronicle New vote -- it's a go: Premiere of ranked-choice voting method mostly gets a thumbs-up -- few glitches By Rachel Gordon and Ilene...
San Francisco Chronicle New vote -- it's a go: Premiere of ranked-choice voting method mostly gets a thumbs-up -- few glitches By Rachel Gordon and Ilene...
Is anyone petitioning for IRV in/for a Virginia locality at this time? Is there any interet in doing so? I would love to get the ball rolling for Richmond's...
Scott, you should get in touch with Christopher Fink from the Fredericksburg Green Party. He's wanting to do precisely this, petition for IRV. I know him...
Scott ---- I'd like to help, but since I'm miles away, not sure what I could do. Also, I'm busy recruiting candidates in the Augusta County, Staunton, ...
Action to Take on Ranked Absentee Ballots Earlier this month, Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee signed legislation providing for overseas military voters to...
PLEASE FORWARD TO THOSE YOU THINK MIGHT BE INTERESTED Matt Gonzalez, the former President of the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, will be speaking at an...
Just reading about the 3-way guv race, The Dem. candidate needs to be informed about IRV as an issue. How popular it is, and that explaining IRV to the voters...
IRV should be an issue in this race! Lots of IRV news is happening nationwide. Keep checking the linkpage for new links, and please add good links. ...
OK There are plenty of shirts in NY now, I would like to get a lof of these to Virginia and the local candidates so they can wear it in a photo-op endorsing...
Are there any plans in the works to introduce a bill for IRV in statewide elections? I'm willing to get involved in that. I'm a pretty good editorialist, and...
I wrote to Del. Lingamfelter about IRV and here is his response. Does anyone know of any good examples I can cite of Virginia elections that could have...
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William Redpath
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Aug 10, 2006 1:58 pm
Mr. Larson's question to Del. Lingamfelter may misstate the problem. What runoffs exist in Virginia? Where in Virginia is a majority winner mandated? Can...
I suppose it would help to determine the goals of the electoral system so that we can make an argument as to whether or not the plurality system "works fine"...
Richmond now has a Mayor at Large system. It seems very ripe for IRV. Charter; City of Richmond. Provides for the direct election of the mayor, beginning in...
Do you think, with the success of IRV in San Francisco and North Carolina, that this would be a good time to try to get a bill passed to implement IRV in...
What are some good examples of Virginia elections that could have benefited from IRV? E.g., was there a race where the third-party/independent candidate...
Yet another example of this not just being a Green issue- http://thirdpartywatch.com/2006/08/19/dirty-tricks-in-oregon-lawyer-fights-to-boot-starrett/#comments...
Nathan Larson is someone who recently started corresponding with me about IRV. I believe he is a member of the Constitution Party. Nathan, please correct me if...
Here is a letter I wrote to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Please let me know if you have any suggestions about how to explain/pitch IRV more effectively....
It seems like the Green Party is the only third party whose platform endorses IRV. (See http://www.greenparty.org/Platform.php#3 ) If anyone gets a chance to...
Would any amendments to the Code of Virginia be necessary in order to implement IRV in Richmond or other towns, cities, or counties? I was thinking that it...
Congratulations to Nathan for getting his letter published in the Times Dispatch this morning. Nathan's a member of the Constitution Party. Despite our...
In answer to my earlier question, Rashad Robinson's "Fair Elections and the Commonwealth of Virginia: A Project of the Center for Voting and Democracy" (2003)...
FairVote's Rob Richie said that North Carolina's IRV law would be a good model for Virginia (although he recommended a winning threshold of 50% rather than...
Nathan, Vince Calahan (I think the name is right) is the best person in the General Assembly to approach re ballot and voting issues. He's been instrumental...
