A city of more than 60,000 people, Santa Fe (NM) voted 65% on March 4, 2008 to become the latest city to give a landslide win to instant runoff voting (IRV). Called ranked choice voting in Santa Fe, IRV has won 13 of the last 14 times it has appeared before voters in cities and counties across the nation. Led by Voting Matters, the campaign won a wide range of endorsements, including the mayor and local branches of Common Cause and Verified Voting.  ... Read More

Farai Chideya leads a discussion on America's modern democratic process and whether the current electoral system is fair. She's joined by William Poundstone, author of Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren't Fair, and What We Can Do About It; and Robert Traynham, D.C. bureau chief for the Comcast cable network, CN8. Here at on NPR now: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87952106 Read More

County next target for instant runoff voting BUT EVEN IF APPROVED, IT COULD BE YEARS BEFORE IT HAPPENS By Rick Barry City of Sarasota voters have already given overwhelming approval to a system of instant runoff voting, arguably the fairest, least expensive way to decide among three or more candidates for a single office when none of them earns a majority of votes, and making another round of campaigning and a second election unnecessary. Now, the group that brought IRV to the city, concerned that the ... Read More

Telling the US Elections Assistance Commission (EAC) what we see wrong in their current guidelines regarding Ranked Choice Voting As FairVoteAZ and other groups proceed in our efforts for greater democracy by better representation using Ranked Choice Voting (RCV), implementation has always been a concern to me. Not implementation by ‘We the Voters’ (that’s as simple as 1-2-3) but how we get machines to help in the count. Now some folks don’t want machines part of the system at all and ... Read More

Better Ballot Glendale's next meeting is scheduled for 7pm on 2/15/08 at the West Valley Unitarian Universalist Church at 59th Avenue and Cholla in Glendale.  We do appreciate the use of this space for our meetings and would like to thank the UU's for sharing it with us.  With the primaries past we do expect our partisans to be less distracted and are looking forward to a solid turnout as our signature deadline approaches. Read More