News of the IRV bill and an electoral college abolition bill has <a href="http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/22/1327257&tid=226&tid=219">reached slashdot</a>. I urge everyone who wants to see fairer elections to contact their congresspersons and point them toward the better alternatives of <a href="http://electionmethods.org/approved.htm">approval voting</a> and the <a href="http://electionmethods.org/Condorcet.htm">condorcet</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method">method</a>. It's very important that voting reform is done RIGHT. The fact that plurality voting sucks is nothing new - it has been known for well over 100 years to be a terrible system - but we are just now finally making inroads to changing it. After reading some of the information I've pasted and linked to, do you really think another 100+ years of IRV is a step in a positive direction for change? I don't. I will be calling my congressmen today to tell them to vote against this bill and instead work towards changing it to either approval or, hopefully, condorcet voting. Please, if this is something that concerns you, do the same as soon as you can.
Be sure to point them (well, point their interns who answer the phone in hopes that they will relay the message) to
http://www.electionmethods.org and mention that it is a public service of the Election Methods Education and Research Group. Hopefully - and maybe this is too much to ask for from our current representatives
- they will take the initiatiev and spend 15 minutes becoming better educated on the options.
<a href="http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/"><b>Contact your representatives, by letter, fax, e-mail, or phone</b></a> (remember, phone is definitely the most effective, but it doesn't hurt to send letters, etc as well)