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== Leadership ==
[[Rob Richie]] has been the President and CEO of FairVote since its formation in 1992. Former congressman and U.S. presidential candidate [[W:John B. Anderson|John Anderson]] was the chair for the board of directors for many years. The current chair of FairVote's board of directors is
== Renaming "preferential voting" ==
:<span id="IRV">''see also: [[IRV#Naming]]''</span>
Prior to FairVote's work, the single-winner version of [[single transferable vote]] was primarily used outside of the United States (e.g. in Australia), and was known in Australia as "preferential voting".
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In 1997, FairVote began referring to preferential voting as "Instant Runoff voting".<ref>[https://www.csmonitor.com/1997/0721/072197.opin.opin.1.html "Fuller, Fairer Elections? How?"]. ''Christian Science Monitor''. 1997-07-21. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Serial_Number ISSN] [https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0882-7729 0882-7729]<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2019-12-14</span></span>.</ref><ref>From [https://web.archive.org/web/19990427031915/http://www.fairvote.org/email_archives/070298.htm the 1998 newsletter]: "Note that the transferable ballot can be used as a proportional representation system in multi-seat districts (what we call "choice voting") and in one-winner elections (what we call "instant runoff voting")."</ref> Though the term "ranked-choice voting" existed as early as 1999,<ref>http://archive.fairvote.org/library/statutes/irv_stat_lang.htm San Francisco Charter Amendment, introduced October 1999 "SEC. 13.102. RANKED-CHOICE BALLOTS"</ref><ref>Instant Runoff Voting Charter Amendment for San Francisco passed on March 5, 2002, "''to provide for the election of the Mayor, Sheriff, District Attorney, City Attorney, Treasurer, Assessor-Recorder, Public Defender, and members of the Board of Supervisors using a ranked-choice, or “instant run-off,” ballot, to require that City voting systems be compatible with a ranked-choice ballot system, and setting a date and conditions for implementation.''"</ref> they didn't appear to start using the term in earnest until 2006,<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20060927205517/http://www.fairvote.org/rcv/ FairVote and the LWV-Arizona Support Ranked Choice Voting]" Dr. Barbara Klein and Rob Richie</ref> and didn't deprecate the term "instant runoff voting" until 2013.<ref>The [https://web.archive.org/web/20130729141521/http://www.fairvote.org/ July 2013 homepage of fairvote.org] was the first to refer to "ranked choice voting" as a preferred term to "instant-runoff"</ref>
== Chapters ==
=== FairVote CA ===
''FairVote CA'' is the [[California]] chapter of FairVote.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fairvoteca.org/|title=FairVote California|website=FairVote California|access-date=2021-03-19}}</ref>
=== FairVote WA ===
''FairVote WA'' is the [[Washington state]] chapter of FairVote.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fairvotewa.org/|title=FairVote Washington|last=|first=|date=|website=|language=en-US|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-03-19}}</ref> It was formerly known as the "Washington Citizens for Proportional Representation".<ref>https://wacpr.wordpress.com/</ref>
== Links ==
* [http://www.fairvote.org/ Center for Voting and Democracy]
* [http://www.democracyusa.org/ Democracy USA]
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[[Category:Organizations]]
[[Category:Advocacy]]
[[Category:FairVote]]
[[Category:501c3]]
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