Join us in 3 weeks in New York City to honor Rob and Cynthia! Purchase Your
Ticket! Dear John,

In three weeks, we will honor and celebrate Rob Richie and Cynthia Richie
Terrell, two of our co-founders who have made a lasting impact on the electoral
reform landscape. I’d like to share a bit about their impact, and how you can
honor them by attending the 2024FairVote Awardson June 3 in New York City.

As young adults, Rob and Cynthia realized that their role in making government
work for all was to change the way we vote for elected officials. In 1991, they
volunteered for a campaign to bring RCV to Cincinnati. Soon after, they helped
launch the organization now known as FairVote – dedicated to reforming American
elections. In FairVote's early days, Rob and Cynthia worked closely with allies
like Dolores Huerta of the United Farm Workers, law professor Lani Guinier, the
New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg, and former independent presidential candidate
John Anderson.

Rob led FairVote for the next 31 years, helping catalyze major progress toward
better elections and making ranked choice voting the nation’s fastest-growing
electoral reform. Cynthia played key roles at FairVote before founding
RepresentWomen, a burgeoning reform group leveraging RCV as a path to gender
equity in politics. Their work led to this moment today, with FairVote set to
launch our second multi-year strategic plan under our new CEO, Meredith Sumpter.

Today, 13 million voters across 50 cities, counties, and states use ranked
choice voting for their elections – including in New York City, the site of our
awards event. The growth of RCV is due in large part to our coalition partners,
and so many of these leaders willjoin usat the Awards on June 3.


“You know, one of the great blessings of getting to honor Rob and Cynthia at
this event is just taking a moment to reflect on how in baseball, they talk
about people who are five tool players. You can run, you can hit, you can field,
you got speed, you can hit for power. Rob and Cynthia, as a couple, are a five
tool couple, in democracy work and civic life.”

– Eric Liu, CEO of Citizen University and 2024 American Democracy Leader Award
Recipient

I’m excited to share that we have new ticket and sponsorship options available,
making this event more accessible to partners, supporters, and allies in our
work. You can find all of these details – and more information about our
honorees – onour website.

To show the depth of our appreciation for Rob and Cynthia, we have launched the
“Rob Richie & Cynthia Terrell Fund for FairVote’s Future,” a special initiative
to sustain our ongoing work. If you donate to the fund in advance of the June 3
event, we would like to celebrate your support by displaying your name on the
fund's webpage, and by acknowledging you at the FairVote Awards in June.

Sincerely,

Ashley Houghton

Chief Program Officer

P.S. Should you have any questions, please email us at:[email protected]

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