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Impact of U.S. Runoff Elections on Racial Minorities and Women: An Analysis and Comparison with Instant Runoff Voting
August 2000 by Rob Richie and Caleb Kleppner, Center for Voting and Democracy Overview Nearly all southern states use two-round…
Proportional Representation Library
The Proportional Representation Library is a source of information on proportional representation elections — including beginning readings, in-depth articles by…
Proportional Representation Voting Systems 
PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION VOTING SYSTEMS Proportional representation voting (PR) is the main rival to plurality-majority voting. Among advanced western democracies it…
PR Library: Should I Be Interested in Proportional Representation?
This piece is part of the Proportional Representation Library. You may have heard a bit about proportional representation and you…
PR Library: What is “proportional representation” and why do we need this reform? 
Douglas J. AmyMount Holyoke College This piece is part of the Proportional Representation Library. Americans continue to be disillusioned with…
PR Library: How Proportional Representation Elections Work
This piece is part of the Proportional Representation Library. We in the United States are used to single-member district, winner-take-all…
Alternatives to RCV
There are many ways of conducting an election. Voting for one and ranking candidates may be most familiar, but voting…
Ranked Choice Voting in New Mexico
Santa Fe and Las Cruces use ranked choice voting for municipal offices. FairVote New Mexico, a past project of FairVote, supported…
Open and closed primaries
Find Your State CLICK HERE FOR STATE-BY-STATE PRIMARY TYPES Open Primaries In an open primary, voters of any affiliation may…
Voting Rights
Essential for any reflective and accountable democracy is equality in voting. The right to vote cannot be abridged. FairVote researches…