{news} Fw: [usgp-dx] Election reform in IL and MASS

[Tim McKee]

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From: "T Yager"
To: natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org
Subject: [usgp-dx] Election reform in IL and MA
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:41:08 -0400


When I visited FairVote's website recently, I found out that there
will be attempts to get statewide IRV on the ballot in MA and
cumulative voting in IL:

Statewide ballot measure drives for voter choice in Massachusetts,
Illinois

A broad coalition of reformers in Massachusetts have a launched a
campaign to put instant runoff voting for statewide offices on the
2010 ballot. Proponents aim to collect 100,000 signatures this fall
The Voter Choice initiative will be the first statewide implementation
of IRV, giving all of Massachusetts’ voters the chance to rank their
preferences and to be free of worries over the spoiler effect in
elections for state offices.

This development comes on the heels of the petition drive launched by
David Winters, candidate lieutenant governor of Illinois. Winters,
currently a Republican state senator from Rockford, has launched a
referendum campaign that would restore cumulative voting (a form of
proportional voting) to the Illinois House, a move which would make
the legislature more competitive and more reflective of the state’s
voters – and encourage more transparency in a state noted for
corruption in recent years.

http://www.fairvote.org/

--
Tom Yager
Co-chair, PCSC
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