Found this on Ballot Access News:Thomas L. Friedman recommends that states pass Instant Runoff Voting, and also recommends that states create nonpartisan commissions to draw congressional and legislative district boundaries.
Friedman cites the work of Larry Diamond, author of “The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World”, and coordinator of the democracy program of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law.” Diamond is a Stanford senior fellow.
Friedman says that if states used IRV, centrist moderates would have a better chance of being elected as independent or minor party candidates.
"That is why I want my own Tea Party. I want a Tea Party of the radical center."
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Michael H. Drucker
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