The Law and Politics Blog: Instant Runoff Voting (IRV)

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Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Eric Pusey at MNBlue has a recap of Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie's speech last night at the FairVote Minnesota 10th Anniversary Dinner. FairVote is the organization advocating Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) in Minnesota.

Ritchie spoke about voter participation, the inadequate teaching of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution in our schools, his dislike of electronic voting machines, and his advocacy for IRV.

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From VoteLaw: The Vermont Senate passed legislation allowing the use of Instant Runoff Voting (IRV), also known as ranked-choice voting for use in electing its seat to Congress.

With passage around the country at the municipal level in the past couple of years, this certainly seems like a rapidly growing trend.

Thoughts?

Today in the world of law and politics:

National:
Obviously, the Gonzales testimony is the leading story. All the news sites and blogs will have stories, but here's some video:

The Abramoff scandal isn't going away. Another Member of Congress is now implicated. Today, Tom Doolittle stepped down from his Appropriations Committee seat.

The Politico has an interesting story on the booming employment and salary market for campaign staffers.

McClatchy has an article on the inherent politicization of voter fraud investigations.

Springfield, Illinois overwhelmingly passed a ranked-choice/instant-runoff voting plan.

John McCain singing his "Bomb Iran" song...