FairVote Issues New Report on How Parties Can Improve Their Primaries

FairVote's "Fix the Primaries" campaign has improved the dialogue about how the parties can run fairer, more efficient contests in 2012. Right to Vote Director Adam Fogel and Executive Director Rob Richie have just released a new article in the Policy Perspective series, Delegating Democracy: How the Parties Can Make their Nominating Contests More Democratic, which examines six proposals that would promote democratic values in both parties' presidential nominating contests. [MORE]

Tom Gangale Releases New Book on Reforming Presidential Primaries

Tom Gangale is the author of the American Plan for reforming the presidential nomination process, which is gaining support across America and the national and state committees of both parties and on the editorial pages of national newspapers, including The New York Times. His new book From the Primaries to the Polls: How to Repair America's Broken Presidential Nomination Process makes the case for reform, and how to achieve it. [MORE]

Fix The Primaries Barnstorms the Media

The Fix The Primaries project is sparking widespread media attention to our calls for parties to institute more democratic processes to pick their presidential nominees. FairVote's Rob Richie has appeared on dozens of radio and television programs, including national programs Bloomberg Television, Democracy Now and FAIR's Counterspin.

[Democracy Now interviews Rob Richie on the role of superdelegates]
[Rob Richie on FAIR's Counterspin ]

Fix The Primaries Profile & More!

Fix The Primaries, was profilied by The Nation's John Nichols, and FairVote staff have graced the pages of newspapers and journals all across the country as primary season heats up. It's a great time to talk about a sensible primary schedule.

FairVote executive director Rob Richie is also hitting the airwaves with frequent appearances on radio, talking about what the primaries really mean for our democracy. Listen to an interview and watch a special TV series below.

[FairVote Election Guide: Understanding Super Tuesday]
[The Nation on FixThePrimaries.com]
[The DesMoines Register quotes Rob Richie]
[FairVote on TV Series American Crossroads]
[Democracy Now interviews Rob Richie on frontloading of primaries]
[Rob Richie Does KPFK Pacifica Radio]

FairVote's Rob Richie is Featured Analyst

Hearst-Argyle Television's special on reforming the presidential primary process has aired on local news stations around the nation as the candidates gear up for the Iowa caucuses. Airing in several episodes, the special can be viewed online.