Proportional Representation

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Election Reform

It's time for Proportional Representation

It's time for Preference Voting Systems like "Ranked Voting" or "Instant-Runoff Voting"

Time to move away from dated "first-past-the-post" --- "winner-take-all" electoral systems...

FairVote.Org


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Election Reform in the UK

http://www.nytimes.com/live/uk-elections-2015/breakdown-of-two-party-system-makes-predictions-more-complicated/

May 2015, as the British election produces calls to change its system, the first-past-the-post/winner-take-all system.

This electoral system, brought to the US from the British Empire, is feeling 'its age' -- and

is no longer a popular voting system in advanced industrial democracies around the world


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Electoral Reform US FairVote.jpg


Why Is Election Reform Needed in the US?


http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Electoral_System_Reform


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