On March 9, the New Hampshire House defeated HB 240 by a margin of 303-44. The bill would have instituted approval voting. Approval voting lets voters vote for as many candidates they wish, even when only one person is being elected. See this story. Thanks to Bill Van Allen for the link.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
At least 44 folks in public offices are perhaps NOT party hack robots.
P.R. and App.V.
The W-A-R for REAL Democracy continues — 6,000 plus years and counting — against the EVIL forces of minority rule — monarchs and oligarchs.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/results.aspx?lsr=292&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2011&txtbillnumber=hb240&q=1
See the text.
See the Roll call vote – can copy and paste into a spreadsheet.
The 400 NH State Reps are elected with a very low number of votes (on average) — thus quite possible to get some REAL Democracy going in NH.