Californians for Electoral Reform	PO Box 128, Sacramento, CA 95812 916-455-8021

Learn about Electoral Reform

Articles and brochures

Improving the California Republic (single-page version)

Proportional Representation - Questions and Answers (Microsoft Word format)

How does choice voting compare to other methods?

What is Instant Runoff Voting? - Why is it so great?

Sacramento's Fun-House Mirror:
Showing How California's Legislature Doesn't Closely Represent its Body Politic

Single-Member Districts: Divide and Conquer

Redistricting in Tic-Tac-Toe Town

The Center for Voting and Democracy's Redistricting Roulette

Vermont groups have produced a demonstration and a more recent report (pdf).

Here is a series of articles by Steve Chessin:

• Introduction (Microsoft Word format)
• Proportional Representation (Microsoft Word format)
• Instant Runoff Voting (Microsoft Word format)

Reference items

Questions and Answers about full representation methods and Instant Runoff Voting
including discussion of other election methods and of ballot measures

Glossary of terms related to election methods

Quotes from authoritative sources about PR

These other sites provide a lot of info on PR.

Instructions for counting a choice voting election (Microsoft Word format) (PDF format) and a related form (Microsoft Word format) (PDF format)

Demographic info

PR would result in the election of more women, as these statistics show.

PR could boost voter turnout.

Here are some stats on the racial and ethnic composition of the state assembly.