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drive2revive · Cumulative voting rights for IL voters

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  • Members: 358
  • Category: Illinois
  • Founded: Jan 19, 1999
  • Language: English
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We need representation for everybody! When only one person gets elected from a diverse district, the political minority goes without any voice. Illinois used a better electoral system for 110 years: cumulative voting rights. We elected three people from a district, not just one, so the majority party elected two people and the minority elected one. That way everyone was represented, Chicago Republicans, DuPage County Democrats and everyone else in between. For the people interested in the drive to revive cumulative voting for the Illinois House, we'll discuss strategy, organize events and figure out how to bring back two-party representation for every voter. This list will be moderated, and should be a convenient way to stay in touch with the drive to revive, as well as an easy way to talk about ways to make this happen. The state legislation to put this on the November 2004 ballot is HJRCA 22. We also work on cumulative voting rights in local elections and successfully helped enact new law that allows county boards in Illinois to give cumulative voting rights if they use multi-member districs (like DuPage, McHenry and Will counties currently use).

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Opportunity: Vote yes on the constitutional convention question this
Our on-going (if rather idle) campaign to improve the Illinois House of Representatives by reinstating bipartisan representation in each district has an
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What happened to this group? There hasn't been activity since April.
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Congratulations -- your work is published by the State Board of Ele
Good news everyone. Remember when a bunch of us followed up with HB 138 from 2003 that gave county boards the ability to grant cumulative voting rights for
Posted - Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:23 am
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Congratulations -- the State Board of Elections is publishing your
Good news everyone. Remember when a bunch of us followed up with HB 138 from 2003 that gave county boards the ability to grant cumulative voting rights for
Posted - Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:20 am
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Re: Federal court orders the use of cumulative voting
Great news. <http://www.richardmeans.com/> Elections - Freedom of Information Act Richard K. Means Attorney at Law Means Law Offices 806 Fair Oaks Avenue
Posted - Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:39 pm
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