[Peace] "Fixing Elections": Wed., 7/10 Book Talk and Signing at IMC

[Prairie Greens]

There will be a good talk/ book singing for folks interested in political 
reform at the IMC next week. If you can, please attend. For those of you 
involved with radio/indy media etc. there will be opportunities to 
interview the author - drop me an email to set it up.

John Paul

Wednesday, July 10th, 7pm at the Independent Media Center
218 W. Main, Urbana.

Meet author and provocative political analyst Steven Hill as he discusses 
and signs copies of his new book, "Fixing Elections: The Failure of 
America's Winner-Take-All Politics" published by Routledge
this month.

Was the lesson of Florida punch-cards that we need better voting machines, 
or that there's something deeply wrong with a system where the candidate 
with fewer votes wins the office? Fixing Elections shows why it's not just 
the Electoral College that's outdated, but our entire 18th-century Winner 
Take All political system, including the way we elect our legislatures. 
Illinois plays a special part in his analysis, as our use of cumulative 
voting in three-person districts for the state House from 1870-1980 
represented more people than traditional Winner Take All elections where 
only one person wins. Steve was the campaign manager of the successful 
campaign in March to implement instant runoff voting in San Francisco.

For more, see www.fixingelections.com

To contact the author, email him at shill at fairvote.org


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