{"article":{"id":134264,"heading":"Election Reform Speaker at LA Greens","author":"twirl","created":"2005-08-09 09:48:51","modified":"2005-08-09 10:01:46","last_modified":"Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:01:46","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Election Reform Speaker at LA Greens <br>  <br> Wednesday, Aug. 17, 7pm <br><br> David Holtzman, founder of Los Angeles Voters for Instant Runoff Elections <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/lavotefire.org\">http:\/\/lavotefire.org<\/a>, will discuss  why the \"Instant Runoff\" system of the single transferable vote is better than plurality rule and what people can do to get the City of Los Angeles and L.A. County to use Instant Run-off Voting (IRV).  <br><br> He'll explain the different paths available to charter and general law cities, and how the near-total lack of suitable voting machines for Instant Runoff elections is a big problem right now, but could be solved by the end of the decade. <br><br> Wednesday, Aug. 17, 7pm <br>  <br> Open to the Public, Free (donations accepted) <br><br> Los Angeles Greens, @ Peace Center, <br>  <br> 8124 W. Third St. (@ Crescent Heights, just west of Fairfax) <br>  <br> Los Angeles <br>  <br> 323-651-5539 <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/losangelesgreens.org\/\">http:\/\/losangelesgreens.org\/<\/a> <br><br>  <br><br>  <br><br>  <br><br>  <br>  <br> <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/losangelesgreens.org\/","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"David Holtzman, founder of Los Angeles Voters for Instant Runoff Elections,  will speak at the Los Angeles Greens meeting on  why the &quot;Instant Runoff&quot; system of the single transferable vote is better than plurality rule and what people can do to get the City of Los Angeles and L.A. County to use Instant Run-off Voting (IRV).","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2005\/08\/134264.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}