Argumentative Essay On Fair Vote

FairVote is a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization working to improve voter turnout rates through promoting electoral reform. Founded in 1992 and named the Center for Voting and Democracy in 1993, FairVote aims ensure proportional representation for all citizens. FairVote advocates for the reform of the country’s electoral system as a tactic to increase voter turnout rates due to the “ number of systemic electoral reforms that reverse the contextual reasons for low turnout.” The organization correlates low voter turnout rates and citizen misrepresentation to the country’s current use of the electoral system. FairVote credits hefty voter turnout rates to a healthy democracy and, thus, their mission of reforming the electoral college will result in an increase voter turnout rates, and therefore, proportional representation. They believe that the “government fails to fully reflect many in the American electorate” and therefore the electoral system should be reformed in order “to fix American politics” by “[fixing] how we choose our politicians.” FairVote advocates the use of the Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV) system in political elections. In this method of voting, “voters can rank as many candidates as they want in order …show more content…
The League of Women Voters focuses on educating voters and ensuring that all citizens have the opportunity to vote. Additionally, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People work to eliminate barriers hindering underprivileged citizens of voting. Moreover, FairVote advocates for the reform of the electoral system seeing as the electoral college causes misrepresentation as it does not consider the majority vote. In order to increase voter turnout rates within the United States political system, citizen involvement is crucial to further the work of these