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An International Perspective on Fair Representation: Remarks from the 2020 FairVote FRA Symposium

February 4, 2020Kevin Johnson

— Thank you Rob, It’s been a pleasure to get to know you and this great organization. It’s also an honor to co-host this event. When we got started, one of our first steps was to seek wisdom from Rob and Cynthia, and Rob, it was good to learn that conversation was a coming…

Revamp House’s election method? Consider the last Parliament vote.

January 30, 2020Kevin Johnson

Published in The Fulcrum, January 30, 2020 Our historical cousins in the United Kingdom vote much like we do — in single-member districts, under simple plurality rules — so their elections are worth paying attention to. This is particularly true now that “the duopoly,” the dominance of two parties characteristic of single-member-district systems, has become…