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IRV for Texas Leadership -- Strategic Planning Meeting
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IRV for Texas Leadership -- Strategic Planning Meeting
Earlier this month, the leadership of IRV for Texas held a strategic planning meeting to begin mapping our approach over the next couple of years. Board members and key volunteers from around the state were joined by other key stakeholders to consider goals and objectives for the upcoming couple of years and beyond.
The 89th Texas legislative session has come to an end, but there is plenty of work to do in anticipation of elections in 2026, which in turn will present opportunities and have an impact on the work we will do in the next session. Following our meetings we are energized to address these opportunities, and we hope you are too! Keep an eye out for our first Impact Report and a distillation of our two-year strategic plan for new opportunities to contribute your time and talents to our efforts to permit instant runoff voting in Texas.
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Get Involved: It Takes Each of Us
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Over the next few months, as we strategize our next steps, volunteers will be vital to keeping our dream of Instant Runoff Voting alive. As our plans evolve, watch this section for more specific opportunities to contribute your expertise and time, no matter how much or how little, to the cause of electoral reform. We need YOU!
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Whether it’s contributing your time, donating to the cause, or spreading the word, every effort counts. Let’s create elections that work for everyone.
What is election reform worth to you? Will you make a donation to help Instant Runoff Voting for Texas bring this transformative reform to elections across the state through our statewide and local organizing efforts? Making this a monthly recurring donation provides us predictable and stable revenue to cover our monthly obligations.
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New survey - no article attached
The Rainey Center conducted survey research to understand how voters think about American democracy. They found that voters across the partisan spectrum believe that election winners should have the support of a majority of voters and that all voters should be able to participate in primaries. They also found that voters would like to see less extremism in American politics.
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Left Behind: How Runoff Elections Disen-franchise Military and Overseas Voters — And How We Can Fix It
As of late 2024, there are 160,000 military and overseas voters in states with runoffs for congressional elections. Six states allow ranked choice voting to protect the vote of 48,000 of these voters, but 113,000 voters in four states, including those from Texas, do not have ranked choice voting to ensure their votes are counted.
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A Path Forward: Why We Need Ranked Choice Voting
This opinion piece explains why the author believes that Ranked Choice Voting is a straightforward, common-sense solution to our current winner-take-all system. This letter can resonate just as much in Texas as it can in Georgia.
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Our View: Time for instant runoff voting is here
This opinion piece highlights voting issues in Charleston, South Carolina, but many of the issues are similar here in Texas. The potential benefits of instant runoff voting can also be realized in Texas.
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