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http://www.salon.com/2015/03/22/5_signs_america_is_devolving_into_a_plutocracy_partner/
http://www.salon.com/2015/03/22/5_signs_america_is_devolving_into_a_plutocracy_partner/
http://billmoyers.com/2015/05/01/political-reporters-refuse-show-us-money/





Revision as of 14:31, 7 May 2015

Election Reform

It's time for Proportional Representation

Preference Voting...

(Time to move past the dated "First-Past-the-Post" and "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 the system, the first-past-the-post/winner-take-all system brought to the US

but no longer a popular electoral voting system around the advanced industrial democracies


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Electoral Reform US FairVote.jpg


Why Is Election Reform Needed in the US?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_reform_in_the_United_States

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/11/02/127962/three-electoral-reforms-improve/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-silver/democracy-reform_b_2909150.html

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

http://www.salon.com/2015/03/22/5_signs_america_is_devolving_into_a_plutocracy_partner/

http://billmoyers.com/2015/05/01/political-reporters-refuse-show-us-money/



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