[EM] Approval supporters needed

[Tom Ruen]

Hey! We have a job!

This email (bottom) is a forward from the instantrunoff egroup today.

I went to the site mentioned:
http://www.reformamericainc.org

Searched for IRV and found:
http://www.reformamericainc.org/paper-vote.shtml

It gives an example how IRV works. I emailed to their site and mentioned
Approval Voting. I took the IRV example they had (2 strong candidates, 2
weak ones), and applied approval to show that it easily gave the same
results w/o ranks.

Here's the reply:
**********************
* Thanks, Tom.  I'm a fan of Approval Voting myself.
* ...
* Would you be interested in writing a piece on approval
* voting yourself for publication on our web site?
*
* Let me know.
*
* Cheers,
*
* Thomas Bryer
* Executive Director
* Reform America
**********************

I replied that I'd be glad to write something. I also said there may be
others  on this list that might like the job, so I offer it now. Any takers?

I will write something if no one else wants to, but at the moment I'm
over-tempted to try to include my Unranked-IRV as an alternative way to
measure approval ballots, but we need some more time to evaluate it.

Tom Ruen

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Bryer" <tombryer at yahoo.com>
To: <instantrunoff at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 10:26 AM
Subject: [instantrunoff] IRV mentioned in Ms. Magazine


> Hi, all --
>
> The chair of Reform America, Patricia Tarabelsi, is
> profiled in the April-May issue of Ms. Magazine (page
> 12) as a Woman to Watch.  The profile includes a
> mention of IRV.
>
> Full text of profile below.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom Bryer
>
> --------
>
> There's always talk of reaching across party lines,
> but few can effectively walk the walk.
> Twenty-two-year-old Patricia Tarabelsi does and
> actually enjoys it -- so much so that she helped found
> Reform America, a national organization whose members
> have different politics but one goal: to raise
> awareness in young adults about challenging the U.S.
> political and voting process.  The group's issues
> include campaign-finance reform, opening up debates to
> third-party candidates, last-minute voter
> registration, and Instant Runoff Voting, which would
> allow voters to rank order several candidates in order
> of preference, eliminating the need to choose the
> lesser of two evils.  Even though Tarabelsi is a
> committed Democrat, as chairwoman of the
> "all-partisan" organization she is able to work
> alongside Greens, Republicans, and Libertarians,
> because she believes that "it shouldn't be just
> Democrat versus Republican.  We're all in this to
> better our society, so we should let anyone who can
> run have a stab at it." Since October 1999, when the
> Boston University senior and other activists founded
> Reform America, its membership has swelled to nearly
> 500 and it's now on 50 college campuses.  Last
> January, the group launched the Women's Empowerment
> Initiative, which it hopes will get more women to run
> for office.  Find out more at
> www.reformamericainc.org.
> -- Rebekah Nix
>
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>
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