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| Formation | June 1992 (as Citizens for Proportional Representation) Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
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| Type | 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization |
| Purpose | Promoting electoral reform in the United States |
| Headquarters | Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S. |
Founder | Robert Richie[1] |
Revenue | $4.3 million (2019)[2] |
Staff | 32[2] |
| Website | fairvote |
Formerly called | The Center for Voting and Democracy, Citizens for Proportional Representation |
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FairVote is a 501(c)(3) organization and lobbying group in the United States.[3]
It was founded in 1992 as Citizens for Proportional Representation to support the implementation of proportional representation in American elections. Its focus expanded over time to include instant-runoff voting (IRV), a national popular vote, a right-to-vote amendment, and universal voter registration.[4][5] It changed its name to the Center for Voting and Democracy in 1993 and to FairVote in 2004.
Since 2018, FairVote has conducted campaigns to oppose alternative voting reforms such as approval and STAR voting.[6] In 2024, FairVote launched an ultimately-successful campaign to maintain first-past-the-post (FPP) voting in Eugene, with FairVote lobbyists successfully preventing adoption of a ballot initiative to replace FPP with STAR voting.[7]
- ^ "National Office Staff". FairVote. Archived from the original on 5 March 2014. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
- ^ a b "IRS Form 990". FairVote. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ^ "Who We Are". FairVote. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
- ^ "PR Web Sites". Mount Holyoke College. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
- ^ "Reforms". FairVote. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
- ^ Krieg, Hannah. "Seattle City Council May Put Competing Ranked-Choice Voting Measure on the Ballot". The Stranger. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
- ^ Downing, Suzanne (2024-05-16). "Voting experiments continue: Eugene to decide on STAR voting, and ranked-choice proponents are opposed". Must Read Alaska. Retrieved 2024-06-02.
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