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- 12/10/2001
-San Francisco Shamed By Election
Several weeks after the November election, the Coast Guard fished eight ballot-box lids out of the San Francisco Bay, and 240 un
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- 12/21/2001
-Green Party works hard on Proposition A -Instant Runoff Voting for San Francisco
FIFTEEN PERCENT. That was the voter turnout for the December 11 runoff to elect the city attorney. Fifteen percent, the lowest in
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- 01/19/2002
-Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., the Democratic Party, SF Labor Council, AFL-CIO, Common Cause endorse Prop A, instant runoff voting!
On Wednesday, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. sent a letter of endorsement for Proposition A, San Francisco's charter amendment for instant
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- 01/22/2002
-Enron Got Its Money's Worth
One of the major falsehoods being bandied about by apologists for the Bush administration is that while Enron may have bankrolled
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- 02/14/2002
-A Fair Vote in San Francisco
On March 5 San Franciscans will have the opportunity to vote for an electoral system that elected "Red Ken" Livingstone as London'
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- 02/22/2002
-Instant-runoff could lure more voters
The way San Francisco voters cast their ballots would change completely under an instant-runoff measure designed, in part, to do �
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- 02/28/2002
-Proposition A -- the PROGRESSIVE choice
This week's Bay Guardian, as well as other recent developments, make it very clear that Proposition A is the PROGRESSIVE choice f
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- 03/06/2002
-Election results...
GREENS WIN REVOLUTIONARY ELECTORAL REFORM!!! SF ADOPTS INSTANT RUNOFF VOTING FOR FAIRER ELECTIONS, ALLOWING VOTERS TO PICK THEIR
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- 03/06/2002
-SF Green Party Instrumental in Passage of Proposition A - Moving on to Future Campaigns
The San Francisco Green Party, in conjunction with the Yes on Proposition A campaign is celebrating a victory with the passage of
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- 03/06/2002
-Major Victory for Voting Reform
The first Tuesday in March marked the starting gun for this year's critical off-year congressional elections. In California, Democ
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- 03/07/2002
-Wave of Election Reform Hits California
As partisan squabbles in the US Senate continue to delay meaningful action on election reforms proposed after the Florida recount
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- 03/23/2002
-The Great Florida Ex-Con Game
How the “felon” voter-purge was itself felonious
In November the U.S. media, lost in patriotic reverie, dressed
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- 03/25/2002
-San Francisco Registers 4,600 New Voters in a Month
Between Jan. 22 and Feb. 19 over 100 ACORN (Association of Community Organizations fo
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- 04/10/2002
-Green Runs Nation's First Publicly Financed Gubernatorial Campaign
Carter Reaches Signature Threshold, Will Run First 'Clean Election' Campaign for Governor.
Jonathan Carter, Green Party
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- 04/12/2002
-Making Second-Place Votes Count
Ralph Nader still hasn't lived down the charge that his third-party candidacy in 2000 swung the election to George W. Bush. It's t
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- 04/17/2002
-Nader Says Lawsuit Settlement Will Aid Third-Party Candidates
WASHINGTON - Former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader said yesterday that settlement of a lawsuit contesting his excl
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- 04/22/2002
-The California Clean Money Campaign
Writing in the Nation, November 19, 2001, Bill Moyers said "the soul of democracy has been dying, drowning in a rising tide of bi
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- 04/22/2002
-Nuts, Nuisances and Nonpersons
When the media dismisses third-party candidates, the public loses
The democratic impulse is a muscle that must be exercised regularly; when people grow up in a political culture that devalues thei
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- 04/25/2002
-Curing France's Electoral Problem -- and Ours
Commentators on far-right populist Jean-Marie Le Pen's success in achieving a place in France's presidential runoff election hav
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- 04/29/2002
-Considering the Alternatives
Some lump Sacramento News & Review under the banner of the “alternative press.” Those who defy traditional forms of speech or dres
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- 05/08/2002
-Lessons from France for Fair Elections
Observers of France's recent presidential election are breathing a sigh of relief, now that the far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le
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- 05/10/2002
-Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD)
On the evening of October 3, 2000, the mis-named Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) ignored my ticket-in-hand to go to an ad
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- 05/27/2002
-Clean Money Repo Men
Remember the old posters that read, "What if schools got all the money they needed and the Pentagon had to hold a bake sale?" How
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- 05/31/2002
-City OKs studying S.F. 'instant runoff voting'
City OKs studying S.F. 'instant runoff voting'
The Los Angeles City Council asked officials Tuesday to study a new voting s
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- 06/03/2002
-Are the Greens Ready For Prime Time?
Minnesota can be considered a veritable mecca for insurgent third parties. Its governor is maverick independent Jesse Ventura. Its
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- 06/17/2002
-Winning the Next War
Democrats and Greens seem intent on re-fighting the last war indefinitely as Democrats continue to blame Ralph Nader and the Green
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- 07/10/2002
-Redistricting Makes Losers of Us All
Redistricting, the once-a-decade process whereby incumbent politicians carve out their own legislative districts to guarantee them
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- 07/14/2002
-Green Party to Republicans: We're Not For Sale!
The New Mexico Green Party rejects a large GOP cash offer.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Green Party of New Mexico announced
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- 07/23/2002
-Initiative Creates Odd Allies
INSTANT RUNOFF: Four Minor Parties Join Republicans in Push For Voting Change
An unusual coalition has sprung from the instant runoff voting initiative on the Aug. 27 primary ballot.
Take Jim Sykes
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- 07/26/2002
-Everything in Proportion
New Zealand's electoral system has allowed the minority Green party to turn its opposition to GM food into an issue that could swi
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- 08/02/2002
-A Failure of Democracy, Not Capitalism
Congress passed sweeping legislation to reform corporate conduct and governance last week, and President Bush has pledged to sign
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- 08/03/2002
-The Mother of Movements
In 1960s' America, progressive activists made huge strides forward, securing major victories from the ruling class on many fronts.
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- 08/24/2002
-Local Issues Are National Issues
Look at the Promenade, the Pier, your own neighborhood: We in Santa Monica suffer every day from the encroachments of huge corpora
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- 08/30/2002
-IRV measure falls short in Alaska
The ground-breaking initiative to bring instant run-off voting (IRV) to Alaskan state and federal elections failed to win the appr
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- 09/20/2002
-Same-Day Democracy Brings the People to the Polls
It's not news that our country has experienced massive voter decline. What is news is that there is an achievable political reform
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- 10/31/2002
-Albanian and Russian Observers Sent to Monitor American Elections
The joke, during the endless presidential election recounts in Florida two years ago, was that Russia and Albania would send poll
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- 11/01/2002
-Danny Glover Takes the Stage For Prop. 52
Voter registration isn’t the sexiest issue, so it might seem strange that the fight to get Prop 52, Election Day Voter Registratio
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- 11/08/2002
-Green Candidate Plays Down Strong Level Of Support
Green gubernatorial candidate Peter Miguel Camejo of Walnut Creek made a historic showing in Tuesday's election, capturing 5.3 per
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- 11/08/2002
-Election Selection
Are We Using The Worst Voting Procedure?
As Election Day approaches, voters must be feeling a sense of déjà vu. With recent reports of malfunctioning voter machines and un
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- 11/20/2002
-Green Party at UC Davis Launches Diversity and Democracy Campaign
Davis, CA -- The Green Party at UC Davis began an initiative campaign last week to increase student representation and voter tur
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- 11/20/2002
-Will the Democratic Campaign Managers Spoil Another Election?
As the initial results of last Tuesday's election rolled in, I was worried that once again the Greens would be blamed for "spoil
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- 11/25/2002
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A Vote That Counts
Imagine casting a vote for a party you like rather than voting for the lesser of two evils. Imagine one of every 11 people doing t
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- 12/03/2002
-PG&E Campaign Missed Deadline On $800,000 In Donations
Lawyers for the Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s successful campaign to thwart a public-power measure failed to report $800,000 in uti
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- 12/10/2002
-Proposed Voting System is Exercise in Free Speech
Jill Stein is a physician and was the Green Party candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 2002.
As election day appr
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- 12/11/2002
-Goodbye to December Runoffs
TUESDAY, San Francisco again found itself in the middle of a December runoff election. Once more, the campaigns turned nasty and
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- 12/19/2002
-IRV: How to Defeat the Machine in One Easy Step
In the shut-in world of SF political punditry, spoiled center-right rich kid Gavin Newsom now holds center stage. You see, Gavin r
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- 02/19/2003
-Instant Runoff Voting: Power to the Voters
Spurred by the memory of Ralph Nader spoiling Al Gore's election, by other third party threats to major party incumbents and by ex
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- 02/21/2003
-UC Davis Adopts Instant Runoff Voting
Students approved the Choice Voting Amendment by an overwhelming majority this week, giving the go-ahead for an overhaul of ASUCD’
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- 03/01/2003
-How To Enact Progressive Policy
As the bellicose oil men in the White House edge the world closer to war, the progressive agenda has slid even further off the na
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- 03/06/2003
-Now Your Vote Is The Property Of A Private Corporation
"The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which all other rights are protected. To take away this right is
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- 03/19/2003
-Winner Take All Politics Feeds Militarization
Advocates of political reform often make their case for change based on the fairer representation it will provide to people of co
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- 03/20/2003
-Gonzalez Speaks to the Greens (updated)
On Feb. 26, 2003 San Francisco’s new Board of Supervisors President and Green Party member Matt Gonzalez stopped by the local Gree
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- 06/26/2003
-SF Election Watch
The latest news about implementation of Ranked Choice (Instant Runoff) Voting
Ranked Choice Voting Progress
* BOARD UNANIMOUSLY APPROVES RCV FUNDING. The SF Board of Supervisors has given unanimou
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- 06/30/2003
-Why I Didn’t Vote In The Moveon Primary
Dear Moveon Folks,
I very much appreciate all of the work you have done to oppose the war in Iraq and to help organize
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- 07/02/2003
-Ranked Choice Voting
IN SPITE OF the fact that San Francisco voters overwhelmingly voted for Instant Runoff Voting (now being called Ranked Choice
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- 07/06/2003
-Who's Fighting Election Reform?
Hint: It's The Same Crew That Backs Gavin Newsom For Mayor
Election reform in San Francisco is under attack, and recent developments indicate the assault has at least some chance of delayin
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- 07/09/2003
-Maine Democrats Successfully Redistrict Green Out of District
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court approved a legislative redistricting plan that removes the nation's highest elected Green Indepen
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- 07/23/2003
-Instant Runoff Is Better Way
California Recall Election Highlights Flaw With Plurality Voting
California promises to be home of this year's biggest electoral media circus. Gov. Gray Davis may be booted out in a special recal
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- 08/03/2003
-Reform Denied
State Panel Rejects S.F.'s Ranked-Choice Plan. Now Comes The Lawsuit.
A plan to implement ranked-choice voting in San Francisco this fall was rejected by a state panel in Sacramento July 28, but the r
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- 08/03/2003
-Instant Runoff Voting: Letters to the Editor
Thwarting The People
Editor -- How dare The Chronicle oppose the clear and unmistakable will of San Francisco voters
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- 08/04/2003
-Mayoral Candidates' Statement
(more recent news articles are below)
Looking to find out what SF's mayoral and DA candidates are thinking on key issues? Then click on the "Campaigns & Endorsements"
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- 08/12/2003
-IRV lawsuit filed, hearing set for Aug 20th
Advocates of instant runoff elections filed suit Monday to force San Francisco to conduct its November election using the new syst
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- 03/03/2004
-Let's End the Two-Party Duopoly
When Ralph Nader chided what he called the "liberal intelligen
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- 03/22/2004
-VERY URGENT NEWS ADVISORY - Terry Baum Count In Trouble
VERY URGENT NEWS ADVISORY
Monday, March 22, 2004 (2:01 p.m.)
Contact: Baum for Congress 415.424-5881
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- 04/20/2004
-Green Party candidate sues election officials
Green Party congressional candidate Terry Baum filed suit Monday claiming that San Francisco elections officials illegally booted
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- 07/20/2004
-SAN FRANSCISCO BEGINS IMPLEMENTATION OF HISTORIC ELECTION REFORM INSTANT RUNOFF VOTING
What: Press conference to discuss San Francisco's implementation of I.R.V. and the Department of Elections campaign to educate v
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- 07/21/2004
-Update: IRV in San Francisco on Track for November Election
Dear friends and supporters of IRV,
Last Monday the Voting Systems Panel of the Secretary of State voted unanimously
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- 07/24/2004
-Green Party Questionnaire for Supervisors
GREEN PARTY/ELECTORAL ACTIVITY/YOUR PLATFORM
1. If the GP endorses you, how do you intend to be accountable to the party if
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- 11/18/2004
-UC Berkeley Research Team Sounds 'Smoke Alarm' for Florida E-Vote Count
Statistical Analysis - the Sole Method for Tracking E-Voting - Shows Irregularities May Have Awarded 130,000 - 260,000 or More Exc
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- 04/07/2005
-Senate Committee Passes Bill to Protect
Legislation to correct a faulty state law that robbed a potential Green Party congressional candidate of a chance to challenge Rep
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- 03/27/2006
-Third Parties Shake Off "Spoiler" Image
Candidate lists for the upcoming California governor’s race offer ample options for student voters who are disenchanted with bot
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- Instant Runoff Voting campaign site
A major electoral reform initiative that will be on the ballot in San Francisco in March 2002. The SF Green Party has been and will be a major force in this campaign to make the voting system fairer, faster, and less expensive.
- Center for Voting and Democracy
This site contains an online library of articles on voting reform.
- California Clean Money Campaign
This group is looking at a 2004 date for a ballot initiative which will introduce public financing of campaings in California, something that has already occured in Maine, Vermont, Massachussettes and Arizona - with spectacular results. There is a Green candidate running for Governor with $1 million in public financing. Clean money candidates - those who don't exceed voluntary spending limits required to get public funding - have won 54% of the seats in Maine. This is probably the most important campaign in the next 2. 5 years.
Media:
Recommended Reading:
- The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
by Greg Palast
About the stealing of the US Presidential election in Florida, the Enron cover-up, etc. Greg Palast is a correspondent for both the Guardian and the BBC, pre-eminent news outlets in Britain.
- Fixing Elections
The Failure of America's Winner-Take-All Politics
by Steven Hill
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Was the lesson of Florida punch-cards that we need better voting machines, or that there's something deeply wrong with a system where the candidate with fewer votes wins the office? Fixing Elections shows why it's not just the Electoral College that's outdated, but our entire 18th-century Winner Take All political system, including the way we elect our legislatures.
While voter turnout plummets to single digits (even episodes of "Survivor" drew larger audiences than cast votes for either Gore or Bush), analysts have blamed the growing apathy of the American electorate. But as provocative political critic Steven Hill so eloquently argues, we're not a lazier, less civic-minded people than our grandparents. Voting just seems pointless to many citizens because they recognize the truth: their votes really DON'T count.
http://fixingelections.com/