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Californians for Electoral Reform |
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| Statewide Organization | Internal Elections | Position on IRV | Position on Proportional Voting | Date | For More Info / To Get Involved |
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| American Independent Party | Endorses | Endorses | 2005 | ||
| Asian Pacific American Legal Center | (Endorsed SB 596)* | May 2005 | |||
| California Common Cause | Endorses (Endorses AB 1294*) | Endorses (source) | David Holtzman | ||
| California Democratic Party (CDP) | PR is used for presidential nomination elections. | Endorsed | No Position? | August 2006 | Steve Chessin |
| Californians for Democracy | (Endorsed SB 596)* | May 2005 | |||
| California League of Conservation Voters | June 2006 | David Holtzman | |||
| California NOW (National Organziation of Women) | Unknown | Unknown | Endorses | August 2006 | Paula Lee |
| California Teachers Association (CTA) | June 2006 | Jim Lindsay | |||
| Californians for Electoral Reform (CfER) | We use Choice Voting to elect our Board of Directors | We are organizing and educating on IRV anywhere we can. | We strongly support Proportional Voting, and push for it when the opportunities are there. However, we are mainly focussed on IRV for now. | May 2006 | Steve Chessin |
| CalPERS | Activists are pushing for CalPERS to use IRV. | CalPERS staff seems interested, because they hate the runoffs, but they are concerned about implementation issues. CalPERS is a semi-governmental agency, and has a lot of issues around elections regulations, the state elections code, and the like. | Never Considered. | March 2008 | James McRitchie |
| CALPIRG | Endorses? (Endorsed SB 596 and AB 1294*) | Endorses?? | March 2007 | ||
| Democracy for America | (Endorsed SB 596 and AB 1294)* | May 2005 | |||
| Democratic Party | Endorses | No Position. | Steve Chessin | ||
| Global Exchange | (Endorsed SB 596)* | May 2005 | |||
| Green Party | Very Strongly Supports | Very Strongly Supports | Since at least 1996? | ||
| Greenlining Institute | (Endorsed SB 596)* | ||||
| Latinos for America | (Has endorsed AB 1294)* | March 2007 | |||
| Libertarian Party | Endorses | Endorses | |||
| League of Calfornia Cities | (Has endorsed AB 1294*) | Rob Dickinson | |||
| League of Women Voters (LWV) | Endorses and often pushes locally | No Position | Paula Lee | ||
| Libertarian Party | First used in March 2008 | Endorses | Endorses | Edward Tessier ("edwardtlp" at sbcglobal.net) | |
| New America Foundation | Endorses (also endorses AB 1294*) | ||||
| Pacifica Radio | Uses Proportional Voting for their governing boards. | ||||
| Peace and Freedom Party | Very Strongly Supports | Very Strongly Supports | Dave Kadlecek | ||
| Reform Party | Has used IRV in state conventions. | ||||
| Republican Party | Informally opposed. We cannot find documentation of their opposition, but we've been told they are opposed. |
* SB 596 was a bill put forward in 2005 by Senator Deborah Bowen. It proposed allowing general law cities to use a variety of electoral systems, including IRV and PV (Proportional Voting). It would also have amended the Elections Code to specify how to count IRV and PV elections. AB 1294 was a bill in 2007-2008, introduced by Assemblymembers Gene Mullin and Mark Leno, that would also give all local jurisdictions the right to use IRV and PV, and specifies common rules on how such elections shall be tallied.