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Sen. Roland Burris is Right to Appeal Judge Grady’s Decision

On Tuesday November 2, 2010 Illinois voters will elect two US Senators. One election will be for a full 6 year term beginning in January 2011. The second election will be for a temporary term for the two months until January 2011.
In the US District Court of Northern Illinois on August 2, Judge John Grady [...]

Christina on Illinois Radio Network

Christina gave an interview August 4, 2010 on the Illinois Radio Network show “Eye on Illinois”. The 25 minute interview focused on implementing a filing fee in lieu of signatures, Instant Runoff Voting, Proportional Representation and California’s Top Two primary. You can listen to it here:
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Free and Equal Radio Show – 8/3/2010

Free & Equal Radio Tuesday Night 9pm to 11pm Central Time. (7-9pm PT)
Michael White starts off the show. He is the Constitution Party candidate for Governor of Illinois, and participated in Free and Equal’s debate for IL Governor. Their petitions are being challenged. Michael will update us on his campaign and how the Constitution Party [...]

Christina Tobin issues statement on passage of Proposition 14 in California

San Francisco, CA (June 17, 2010) – In April of this year, the Town of Port Chester, NY adopted cumulative voting. New York is again making progress with electoral reform, with the introduction of a bill to allow Instant Runoff Voting for municipal and county offices.
As usual with IRV, after each round the lowest [...]

Celebrating the Fourth Estate

Thanks to Free & Equal, like-minded organizations and true patriots, the word is finally getting out about the continued efforts of the establishment in Illinois to pollute the state’s political system.
At the end of last year, we sounded the alarm about Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s misuse of state employees, thereby state tax dollars, to further his purely political [...]

Moving Forward After Election Day

Tuesday’s election did not turn out nearly as well as we had hoped.
It was a tough day for Independent and Third Party candidates in nationally watched races in New York and New Jersey.
It was also a very tough day for Instant Runoff Voting.
The voters of Pierce County, Washington voted overwhelmingly to repeal Ranked Choice Voting [...]

Free & Equal Chair Writes in Favor of Ranked Choice Voting in Pierce County, Washington

Rank Choice Voting (RCV) is a voting system in which voters rank candidates in order of preference. If no candidate is the first preference of a majority of voters, the candidate with the fewest number of first preference rankings is eliminated and that candidate’s ballots are redistributed at full value to the remaining candidates according [...]