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<p><h1><strong>Our election system is broken. For every office in the land. </strong></h1>

<p style="text-align:center;><img src="news_header.jpg" alt="Header.jpg"/></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="news_header.jpg" alt="Header.jpg"/></p>

<p>The <a href="#plurality">root of the problem</a> is our reliance on an archaic, misrepresentative voting method that has persisted since before the beginning of the country. We're <a href="#plan">starting at the local level</a>, then working statewide and nationally, to fundamentally reboot our electoral process and bring the equal vote and true representative democracy to the U.S. for the first time.

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<p>We'll get into the details in a bit, but first...

<p><strong>The Problem:</strong>
<p>For offices from state legislator to President, our election system serves up at MOST two viable and polarized candidates who spend months tearing each other down. Cycle after cycle, we are rewarded with dysfunctional, hyper partisan governing bodies ripe for manipulation by special interests.
<p>For offices from state legislator to President, our election system serves up at MOST two viable and polarized candidates who spend months tearing each other down. Cycle after cycle, we are rewarded with dysfunctional, hyper partisan governing bodies ripe for manipulation by special interests.</p>

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<p><strong>The Solution: One Fair Election</strong>
<p>What if we could have a single inclusive election that provides us all an <strong>equal</strong> say, <strong>accurately</strong> reflects our collective will in the outcome, is <strong>simple</strong> for us to ballot and for elections officials to tabulate, and allows us to <strong>expressively</strong> share our <strong>honest</strong> opinions on the outcome instead of always having to strategically choose just the lesser evil?
<p>Until recently, such an election system did not exist. Various competing reforms such as Instant Runoff Voting, Approval/Range Voting and the Top Two Runoff provide partial solutions, but each suffers from weaknesses of complexity, representative accuracy, or strategic vulnerability.
<p>Until recently, such an election system did not exist. Various competing reforms such as Instant Runoff Voting, Approval/Range Voting and the Top Two Runoff provide partial solutions, but each suffers from weaknesses of complexity, representative accuracy, or strategic vulnerability.</p>

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<p><strong>Enter Score Runoff Voting</strong>

<p>We propose a new voting system, <a href="about>developed in 2014</a> by some of the nation's top voting reform experts. Instead of limiting the voter to supporting just one of the candidates, Score Runoff Voting allows voters to rate all the candidates similar to how we rate books on Amazon, restaurants on Yelp and songs on iTunes. Whether we've seen the Olympics or ever been graded on a homework assignment, scoring is a thoroughly-understood, ubiquitous method of expressing a fine degree of opinion on a subject.
<p>We propose a new voting system, <a href="about">developed in 2014</a> by some of the nation's top voting reform experts. Instead of limiting the voter to supporting just one of the candidates, Score Runoff Voting allows voters to rate all the candidates similar to how we rate books on Amazon, restaurants on Yelp and songs on iTunes. Whether we've seen the Olympics or ever been graded on a homework assignment, scoring is a thoroughly-understood, ubiquitous method of expressing a fine degree of opinion on a subject.

<img src="SRV_sample_ballot.png">

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<p><em>Approval Voting</em> and the more generalized Range Voting use the voter's rating of each candidate to determine the winner. Most rating systems don't also account for the voter's specific preferences between candidates. Because SRV uses the ranked preferences of the voters as well as their overall scores, <a href="SRVvsApproval">it answers the strategic voting criticisms</a> of Approval and Range Voting.
<p id="plan"><strong>The Plan:</strong></p>

<p>It's time to create real democracy in the U.S., and Oregon can lead the way. We've formulated a three step plan to revolutionize our national democratic system.
<p>It's time to create real democracy in the U.S., and Oregon can lead the way. We've formulated a three step plan to revolutionize our national democratic system.</p>
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<li><strong>Start Local.</strong> We'll prove SRV's efficacy in local elections, starting at the city and county level in Oregon.<br><br></li>
<li><strong>Go Statewide.</strong> We'll push for all Oregonians to have an equal, expressive vote in all elections, and we'll phase in the new system in a way that both maximizes impact and minimizes the risk of adopting a new system. We'll get dramatically more representative outcomes and we'll save the voters, candidates and state a ton of time and money to boot.<br><br></li>
<li><strong>Lead the Nation.</strong> We'll re-envision our Presidential Primary so that Oregonians have a meaningful voice in the outcome and blaze the trail for the nation to a better democracy.<br></li>
<li><strong>Start Local.</strong> We'll prove SRV's efficacy in local elections, starting at the city and county level in Oregon.</li>
<li><strong>Go Statewide.</strong> We'll push for all Oregonians to have an equal, expressive vote in all elections, and we'll phase in the new system in a way that both maximizes impact and minimizes the risk of adopting a new system. We'll get dramatically more representative outcomes and we'll save the voters, candidates and state a ton of time and money to boot.</li>
<li><strong>Lead the Nation.</strong> We'll re-envision our Presidential Primary so that Oregonians have a meaningful voice in the outcome and blaze the trail for the nation to a better democracy.</li>
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<p>Check out the <a href="reform">reform plan</a> and then <a href="join">sign up</a> to pitch in the effort!</p>