I mean, it's a serious quandary!
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Hi Friend,

 

If you’re like me, you were probably watching the Milwaukee Bucks face off
against the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday for the series-deciding Game Six of the NBA
finals. 

 

Unlike me, however, your mind was probably entirely engrossed in the
basketball, watching Devin Booker take on Giannis Antetokounmpo. Meanwhile, I
was, of course, thinking about what the showdown meant in the vein of democracy
reform. 

 

On the one hand, you have Phoenix, Arizona, which has been at the center of a
lengthy (and error-riddled) audit of their elections. On the other hand, you
have Milwaukee, Wisconsin where bipartisan legislation to establish Final-Five
voting has been advancing steadily through the legislature. 

 

I knew who I wanted to win from a fan-perspective. But as a reformer? It made
me rethink some things. 

 

Here are three things this week:

Unite Arizona deserved a Suns victory.
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Arizona is one of the handful of states whose voting system has been attacked
by politicians motivated to put party over voters. Luckily for the people of
the Copper State, Unite Arizona, a project of Unite America, has been working
tirelessly in the legislature to defend their rights. 

 

This week, Arizona State Director Luis Acosta-Herrera writes about what Unite
Arizona accomplished this session,relentlessly fighting back bad bills that
would have weakened Arizona’s elections, while promoting bills that
thoughtfully and pragmatically put voters first. Check out the full piece here
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Another great headline from New York, as a new study from last month’s primary
— the largest expansion of ranked choice voting in history — finds that ranked
choice voting helped to boost both turnout and the diversity of the candidates
elected.


From AMNY
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: “‘New Yorkers enthusiastically embraced ranked choice voting and easily
navigated the new system,’” said [Betsy] Gotbaum, the city’s former public
advocate. “‘It gave more voters a say in who runs our city, helped drive up
voter turnout, led to a more diverse pool of candidates, and helped more women
and people of color win.”



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Everything we know about primaries so far:
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Finally, a report by New America’s Lee Drutman unpacks everything we know
about primary elections so far, synthesizing dozens of findings into a single
conclusive report that analyzes primaries and our assumptions about primary
reforms. On the blog, we break down Drutman’s 80-page report. What you need to
know:the report finds strong evidence that primaries are a problem fueling
dysfunction in our political system, but is less conclusive on how reforms will
impact it. 

 

The good news: reforms like Alaska’s Final-Four voting have promise. While
they haven’t been implemented enough to drive clear conclusions, Drutman finds
promise in their potential. Check out thefull blog
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Brett
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Brett Maney
Senior Communications Manager
Unite America
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