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Causes: Civil Rights, Voter Education & Registration, Voting Rights
Mission: Fairvote minnesota will promote social welfare by advocating for improved voting methods in public elections. Fairvote minnesota will carry out its exempt purpose prinicipally through participation in ballot measure campaigns to amend city charters.
Programs: Outreach -- continued to build support for rcv in brooklyn park (a minneapolis suburb), where the charter commission has advanced a ballot measure proposal.
minnesota state legislature -- gained growing bipartisan support for our local options rcv initiative. Surveyed 2016 legislative candidates in which the majority of both gop (26 responses) and dfl (51 responses) candidates not only supported a local rcv option, but also supported rcv for state-level elections.
state of maine ballot measure -- we continued to serve as a valued resource to rcv efforts across the country, including to the effort to implement rcv in portland, maine.