Voices & Choices: Recent Episodes
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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.
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.
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/
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
Law and Policy Director Drew Penrose talks about our Monopoly Politics projections for the 2020 U.S. House of Representatives races.
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.
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.