{"id":13354,"date":"2022-04-20T21:03:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T21:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=13354"},"modified":"2022-05-01T02:34:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T02:34:56","slug":"2022-04-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2022-04-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Approval Voting, A Huge Improvement for our Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1850\" height=\"1729\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/humanists.org_2022_04_24_jeff_justice.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13356\"\/><figcaption>Jeff Justice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<h3>Jeff Justice<\/h3>\n<p>Our Choose-One voting method often elects candidates that represent a vocal minority. It causes partisanship and distrust of government. This Sunday, April 24, Jeff Justice will give real-world examples of how Choose-One voting failed, and how switching to Approval Voting improved the outcomes.<br>\nJeff Justice is a board member of The Center for Election Science which is a national nonprofit that advocates for better voting methods. He is also an organizer for California Approves, which is moving to bring Approval Voting to California.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/703498641?h=dbf8ee6d8e\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/703498641\">220424 Jeff Justice.mp4<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/hcsv\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br>Because of the coronavirus situation, this Forum will be held online.<\/p>\n<p>To see the Forum, and to ask questions or make comments, if you wish, click <a href=\"https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/j\/81653890712?pwd=QzN4MTVNbGEwQ0Zua3d1VG9tVE50UT09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br>Our host will admit you from the waiting room. 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It causes partisanship and distrust of government. This Sunday, April 24, Jeff Justice will give real-world examples of how Choose-One voting failed, and how switching to Approval Voting improved the outcomes. Jeff Justice is a board member of The Center for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2022-04-24\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Approval Voting, A Huge Improvement for our Democracy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13354"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13367,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13354\/revisions\/13367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}