St. Paul’s Better Ballot Campaign was fined $5,000 for violating campaign laws after a panel of administrative law judges ruled the group made false claims in endorsements of Instant Runoff Voting, which was approved by St. Paul…
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…
Although Minneapolis held no primary election this year, candidates for city office still had to file “pre-primary” campaign-finance reports under a new ordinance passed this summer. Yet for two weeks after the Sept. 8 deadline, confusion and other delays kept a couple dozen candidate and political committee reports from reaching the public.
Thanks to instant-runoff voting and no primary, everyone running for office in Minneapolis will stay in the race through the general election. For lesser-known candidates, that may be most significant impact of the city’s new election system.
When Republican Tom Conlon leaves the St. Paul School Board this summer, he’ll also be leaving Minneapolis and St. Paul with only two elected city officials not from the DFL Party.
The St. Paul citizens who have been pushing for instant run-off voting will have a longer battle in the Capital City than their counterparts faced in Minneapolis. Several significant problems have been raised about the possibility of implementing alternate…
The St. Paul City Council heard several points of view on instant run-off voting at a policy session on Wednesday. IRV, which is being pushed in St. Paul after passing in Minneapolis, is an alternate voting method that would…
Frustration over elections from the presidential to mayoral levels has brought people out to a training for instant run-off voting and how to promote it at their precinct caucuses on March 6. People expressed concern over candidates winning with less…
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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