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In the pages listed below, you will find information about electoral reform advocacy groups who are actively promoting better voting systems.
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Ralph Anderson made several proposals to the Canadian House of Commons Special Committee on Electoral Reform, advocating for a modified version or IRV.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_House_of_Commons_Special_Committe...
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Discussion:
French presidential elections, 2017
http://en.minguo.info/blogs/augustin/french_presidential_elections_2017
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The Swiss Electoral Studies - Selects
http://www2.unil.ch/selects/
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Frome is a small town in Somerset, UK, with 25,000 inhabitants.
Disappointed with traditional parties, and their management of the local community, Peter Macfadyen, who has been living in Frome for over 30 years, decided to take action. He banded with other local activists and formed a new, local party, the Independents for Frome and decided to run candidates for every seat in the town Council. The members of the newly formed local party recognized that they formed a group of very diverse people, and that disagreement were bound to happen. But, moved by a common desire to do what's right for the community, they found a way to work together.
At the local elections of 2011, the Independents for Frome (IfF) took 11 seats out of 17. Mel Usher became mayor.
On 7 May 2015, the Independents for Frome took all 17 seats on Frome’s town council, 7 women and 8 men. Peter Macfadyen succeeded Mel Usher as mayor.
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The following are web sites that are promoting better voting systems across the USA:
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Activist groups in California:
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The following concerns the Colorado Voter Choice:
Here is an introduction by Jan Kok:
Colorado state representative John Kefalas is leading efforts to adopt
better voting methods in Colorado for state and federal-level
elections. He sponsored the Voter Choice Act HB07-1162 which would
have created a committee to study voting methods and run pilot
projects in some local elections in 2010. That bill was killed due to
lack of funding. However, Kefalas has created a Voter Choice Task
Force to study various voting methods and make recommendations to the
2008 General Assembly. The first monthly meeting has been held.I've been working with Kefalas since about Dec '06. Kefalas is mainly
interested in IRV, however, I persuaded him to include Approval and
Range Voting among the voting methods to be considered in the Voter
Choice Act and by the task force. I'm a member of the task force. I'm
pushing as hard as I can to get Approval Voting (which I am now
calling "vote for one or more" to stress the utter simplicity of the
idea) used in the Nov 2008 Colorado state and federal-level elections.
At this time I seem to be the lone voice calling for this. I would
love to have more people, especially Coloradoans, promoting this idea.
Of course it would be great to get this idea (vote for one or more in
Nov 2008 elections) moving in other states as well. (How about New
Hampshire? Any Free Staters listening?)The Google group http://groups.google.com/group/COVoterChoice is
dedicated to discussing voting reform in Colorado. Please feel free to
join the group or link to it.
From the Colorado Voter Choice discussion group homepage:
his group is for discussions relating to Colorado State Representative John Kefalas' Voter Choice Act, HB07-1162. Although the bill was killed (for want of $25,000 to fund associated costs), a Voter Choice Task Force has met in June, 2007 and will continue to meet monthly. The Task Force will study several voting methods for possible use in Colorado elections, and make recommendations to the 2008 Assembly.
This Google group has no official status. One of the task force members (Jan Kok) will forward communications among task force members to this group. The general public may join this Google group and post messages. Some of those messages may be relayed back to the Task Force members, at the discretion of those Task Force members who also belong to this Google group.
The task force will study these voting methods, and possibly others, for implementation by 2010:
Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) a.k.a. Ranked Choice Voting (RCV): http://FairVote.org/irv
Approval Voting a.k.a. "Vote for one or more" (also being proposed for 2008): http://ApprovalVoting.com, http://ApprovalVoting.org, http://RangeVoting.org/Approval.html
Range Voting: http://RangeVoting.org
Proportional Representation (which includes many methods): http://www.fairvote.org/?page=37, http://rangevoting.org/PropRep.html
See also this article by Jan Kok at denver.yourhub.com: 2008 election fiasco is preventable.
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About Texas, it is only known that Rock Howard, one of the founders of Citizens for Approval Voting used to be active to get the State of Texas to use Approval voting.
Further information would be appreciated.
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In Washington State, currently only one activist group is known.
In 2005 and 2006, they were rallying behind State Representative Nixon to promote Condorcet , a.k.a IIRV, for the state legislature.
Here is a quote for the group's homepage:
Our vision is to see IRRV (Instant Round Robin Voting, aka Condorcet's method) enacted and used successfully at or above the level of a US state or its foreign equivalent.
In 2005, then- state representative Toby Nixon planned to introduce IRRV legislation for the state of Washington in the 2006 session. Since WA had lost yet another electoral system to unconstitutionality, and since WA House rep Nixon was the ranking minority member on the relevant committee that would rewrite it, his intent was most auspicious.
Representative Nixon asked for a Condorcet (IRRV) "think tank". Its mission was to:
1) Recruit knowledgeable voting methods analysts and activists, including some WA state residents.
2)Winnow the field of voting methods fitting Condorcet's criterion
3) Neatly describe one practical proposal
4) Review staff translation into "statutory language"
5) Politely educate Washington State's decision makers (legislators and key lobbyists) throughout the legislative process
For those purposes, I created this Condorcet Yahoo group, and representative Nixon subscribed. We assembled our "think tank" and completed the next two goals. Unfortunately, legislative committee "leadership" thwarted the 2006 attempt to put IRRV on the calendar, and then Mr Nixon lost his 2006 bid for a state senate seat, effectively cutting this group adrift.
We are now in limbo pending a revised mission. We can still review statutory language if we can find an expert source (and former rep Nixon remains subscribed). We could also apply ourselves to any other IRRV initiative or legislative project in any jurisdiction or representational organization.
We were (and could again be) more than just a discussion, especially if Mr. Nixon returns to office. If you share our vision and can revitalize our mission, then please join this *work* group.
If you are interested in being active in Washington, you can contact the group owner, Jeffry R. Fisher (from Vancouver WA).