With shipments heading to both coasts, it was a good weekend for Minnesota’s leading export: rightwing political rhetoric. In California, a conservative group took delivery of a 36-minute speech from Gov. Tim Pawlenty. (Note to Customer Service: T-Paw’s speech…
The No Bad Ballots Committee wants to thwart the adoption of Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) in St. Paul. The newly formed advocacy group argues that the system will confuse voters and result in the disenfranchisement of immigrants and…
The ongoing U.S. Senate contest may have produced an unlikely victim: instant-runoff voting. At Saturday’s DFL convention in St. Paul, delegates failed to back a measure to support the controversial balloting system. As St. Paul City Council member Dave Thune put it, “We’ve got a general population that has trouble filling out one oval in a Coleman-Franken race.”
Cross-posted at Vox Verax.
Last week Minneapolis voters overwhelming approved instant runoff voting for future city elections. Instant runoff voting, or IRV, allows voters to rank their candidate preferences on their ballots. The idea is that if no…
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