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3 days left to tell us how politics should change...,
Brentwood :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago
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The campaign is committed to giving everyone across the country a say in what reforms are needed to fix our politics and wants your input. What changes would you like to see?...More power to local communities? You decide. Over 3000 ideas have already...
Tags: United Kingdom, Brentwood, Computer law, Free music, Creative Commons, Elections, Politics, Copyleft licensing, Voting system, Democracy
Is New York Ready for Instant Runoffs?
New York City :: NY :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Under the radar, however, another storyline developed following the city's primary runoff on Tuesday, Sept. 15 -- called to choose the Democratic nominees for two citywide offices. The abysmally low turnout and high cost of the runoff election -- to the...
Tags: IRV New York, instant runoffs, New York City, runoffs elections, runoffs voting, New York Needs, primaries elections, Senate Elections Committee, places voting, allow voters, Voting system, Single transferable vote, Plurality voting system, IRV implementations in United States, Effects of different voting systems under similar circumstances, Politics, Single winner electoral systems, Instant-runoff voting, Two-round system
Oscar ballots by the numbers
Sydney :: Australia | 8 days ago
Credibility Since the third question is the most complicated, that�s the one we�ll start with. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences consists of 15 branches; voters nominate work in their own branch (directors nominate directors, editors nom editors, etc.).
Tags: PWC, magic number, The Academy, best pic, place choices, Australia, Sydney, Public choice theory, Social choice theory, Voting system, Preferential voting, Voting, Elections, Single winner electoral systems, Psephology
Letters for November 18
Baghdad :: Iraq | 10 days ago
Credibility A Troubled Rape Case," Feature, 10/28 My Mind Has Been Opened Thank you for the in-depth investigative report on this important story. I have to admit that when I first heard about an "aggressive" DA and a much-younger ADA, I jumped to conclusions that...
Tags: Don Perata, KPFA Elections Mark Station, Berkeley, IRV, Oakland, Iraq, Baghdad, KPFA, Voting system, California State Senators, Instant-runoff voting
Cheap website sparks fears millions of X Factor votes could be cancelled
Glasgow :: United Kingdom | 12 days ago
Credibility X Factor have denied a new service offering cheaper voting on the internet is affecting the TV show's results. Thousands of viewers have used free2call.tv since it launched in September, avoiding the 35p calls from land lines – and "considerably more"...
Tags: factor votes, United Kingdom, Glasgow, Controversy and criticism of The X Factor, The X Factor, British television, Voting system
A glance at the California Voting Rights Act
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 13 days ago
Credibility The 2002 law is intended to promote the election of more people of color in local races. It amounts to an attack on "at-large" elections — those in which candidates run citywide or within an entire school district — that some say can be biased against...
Tags: California, voting rights, california voting, rights act, San Francisco, Voting system, Political corruption, Instant-runoff voting, Tactical voting, Psephology, Voting Rights Act, Electronic voting, Social Issues, Law Crime
Samuels is first to win via ranked-choice system
Minneapolis :: MN :: USA | 14 days ago
Credibility Minneapolis Fifth Ward City Council Member Don Samuels on Friday became the first candidate under the city’s new ranked-choice voting system to win office through the counting of voters’ second choices. According to unofficial tallies released by city...
Tags: Don Samuels, Natalie Johnson Lee, choices voting, Minneapolis, Psephology, Voting system, Ballot, Single transferable vote, Public choice theory, Social choice theory, Single winner electoral systems
Labor Hampered by Votes of Silence
Muscat :: Oman | 15 days ago
Credibility Dick Meister, t r u t h o u t Op-Ed Nothing is more basic to our democratic society than the principle of majority rule. But what if the eligible voters who fail to cast ballots were automatically recorded as voting 'no'?
Tags: union elections, Oman, Muscat, Voting system, Trade union, Instant-runoff voting, Help America Vote Act, Elections, Voter turnout, Voter suppression, Labor, Politics
Whither online democracy?
A relationship would not be termed as exactly healthy where there is hundred percent agreement involved in each and every issue. Humans are designed to be disagreeable and there can be no such relationship where perfect harmony exists but our relationship...
Tags: voting system, healthy relationship, humans, harmony, representative democracy, direct democracy, leaders, government, online democracy, internet voting, technical issues
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