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🗓️ 5 March 2025
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In January, Managing Editor talked with Meredith Sumpter. She is the CEO of FairVote, a nonpartisan organization that researches and advances voting reforms including ranked choice voting and the Fair Representation Act. They discuss the significance of ranked choice voting (RCV) as a reform for improving American democracy. She addresses misconceptions about RCV, emphasizing its simplicity and effectiveness in enhancing voter representation and accountability.
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1:02.5 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, |
1:08.8 | this is Tangle. this is Tangle. |
1:19.8 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent |
1:27.9 | thinking, and a little bit of our take. I'm your host for today, Ari Whiteman, Tangle Managing |
1:33.4 | Editor, and I have a bit of a special episode for you all. As some of you may recall back in |
1:40.3 | the beginning of January, just after we came back from break, we answered a question about |
1:44.8 | ranked choice voting to a reader who was a little confused about the results of the last election |
1:51.1 | and how it fared in some state-level ballot initiatives. So rank choice voting was on the ballot. |
1:58.7 | Lot of states didn't pass anywhere new and narrowly defended usage in |
2:04.1 | Alaska and Maine. We got a reader asking why that was. Seems like Frank Choice voting is a good |
2:10.5 | idea. It's something we've written about supportively before. So what are the arguments against it? |
2:15.2 | In our answer to that question, we made a couple statements |
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