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Episodes

  1. 05/31/2019

    Maria Perez of Common Cause talks ranked choice voting in New Mexico

    Former FairVote New Mexico director Maria Perez talks about efforts to implement ranked choice voting in Santa Fe in a whirlwind information campaign just a few weeks before its debut RCV election. Now with Common Cause, Perez has continued to champion RCV by coordinating implementation efforts in Las Cruces and continued advocacy statewide. More information on the Santa Fe election: https://www.fairvote.org/2018_election.

    16 min

  2. 05/03/2019

    Ranked choice voting and bipartisan collaboration in Utah

    Utah Rep. Marc Roberts and former Rep. Rebecca Chavez-Houck talk about their bipartisan bill to bring ranked choice voting to Utah cities. For more about efforts to spread RCV in Utah, visit utahrcv.com.

    24 min

  3. 03/26/2019

    SCOTUS and the gerrymander: an interview with Kathay Feng of Common Cause

    The almighty gerrymander is back before the Supreme Court in a pair of cases in Maryland and North Carolina. Kathay Feng, national redistricting director of Common Cause, explains the significance of the SCOTUS weigh-in on the future of fair maps and competitive elections. https://www.commoncause.org/

    26 min

  4. 02/26/2019

    Larry Lessig and Adam Eichen talk RCV in presidential primaries

    Trouble lies ahead for for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, with vote-splitting, 'spoilers' and non-majority outcomes made even more likely with every new candidate who enters the field. Ranked choice voting offers a solution to protect majority outcomes and eliminate split or wasted votes. Larry Lessig and Adam Eichen explain exactly how RCV would work as proposed for New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation presidential primary. Equal Citizens: https://equalcitizens.us RCV in presidential nominations: https://www.fairvote.org/rcv_for_presidential_nominations#what_s_wrong_with_the_way_we_vote_now

    27 min
  5. FairVote projects the 2020 House races... already

    11/28/2018

    FairVote projects the 2020 House races... already

    Law and Policy Director Drew Penrose talks about our Monopoly Politics projections for the 2020 U.S. House of Representatives races.

    28 min
  6. David Daley on the threat of gerrymandering to American democracy

    08/29/2018

    David Daley on the threat of gerrymandering to American democracy

    FairVote Senior Fellow David Daley is one of the country's foremost authorities on gerrymandering. He is the author of "Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count" and his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Washington Post, Slate, Salon and numerous other publications.

    31 min
  7. Yascha Mounk on democracy and electoral reform

    08/13/2018

    Yascha Mounk on democracy and electoral reform

    Yascha Mounk is a lecturer on Government at Harvard University, a senior fellow in the Political Reform program at New America and executive director at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. He is also a contributor to Slate.

    18 min
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Podcast by FairVote

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  • Creator
    FairVote
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2019
  • Episodes
    7
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