Fairvote

“The spouse of the executive director is a board member and employee of the organization.”

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“The return has been amended due to adjustments recorded in the audited financial statements which were not finalized prior to the due date of the return. On the original filing, unrestricted donations in the amount of $62,236 were not reported, since they were originally recorded in the subsequent fiscal year. Also, prepaid expenses were understated by $4,222 and accounts payable overstated by $17,487. Also, changes were made to the cash balance and other liabilities to write off old uncleared transactions in the amount of $20,160 and the fixed assets schedule was grossed up by $12,107.additionally, the mission statement, number of employees and contractors were updated.”

“Consulting: program service expenses 776,301 management and general expenses 1,318 fundraising expenses 577 total expenses 778,196opinion research: program service expenses 6,000 management and general expenses 0 fundraising expenses 0 total expenses 6,000 ballot services: program service expenses 750 management and general expenses 0 fundraising expenses 0 total expenses 750 total other fees on form 990, part ix, line 11g, col a 784,946”

“Form 990, part iii line 4, program service accomplishments:ranked choice voting education:this includes civic organizations and local governments choosing their leaders and strengthening voting rights for overseas voters in runoffs. These uses can ground support for extending rcv to practical statewide uses, such as replacing runoff elections, and using rcv for general elections and in combination with changes like open primaries and multi-winner districts. Rcv can be appealing in multiple ways and a subject of consideration for use in electing our nations highest offices.examples of 2017 program work in this program area include: partnership with state allies: we engage with reform partners across the country. Our november 2017 reformers summit drew more than 50 participants from 21 states and canada to learn from fairvote and each other on messaging and advocacy tools. We have regular communication with formally organized state groups in colorado, nevada, missouri, florida, virginia, utah, washington, oregon, illinois, massachusetts, and ohio. We also partner with groups like represent.us, take back the republican, and local arms of the league of women voters. New organizations have access to best practices and resources through our online toolkit.here are examples of our work in states:new mexico: in march fairvote hired maria perez to run our fairvote new mexico project. Her focus was to help facilitate a smooth introduction of ranked choice voting in its first use in 2018 in the city of santa fe for elections for mayor and city council. We also contracted with a former rio rancho election official to help review state procedures on elections and talk with election officials about ranked choice voting. Santa fes elections clerk was ready to postpone use of ranked choice voting for its march 2018 elections even though the citys voting equipment had recently become ready to use the system and the secretary of state was ready to help. As a result, perez joined a lawsuit to reverse the citys decision, which resulted in a court ordering santa fe to implement rcv for its march 2018 elections, with the new mexico supreme court rejecting the citys attempt to resist the order and helping affirming the lower court ruling that rcv faces no constitutional barriers in the state fairvotes experience has been that it is important for all the candidates and campaign teams in ranked choice voting elections to have access to information about running in rcv elections when it is first introduced in a community. In december, fairvote new mexico held a well-attended all-day workshop to which all santa fe candidates and campaign volunteers for the march 2018 elections were invited to learn more about ranked choice voting and hear about best practices. The leading candidates for mayor participated or sent representatives, along with more than 20 campaign volunteers.utah: fairvotes ranked choice voting resource center went to utah three times in 2017 to make informational presentations on how to tally ranked choice voting ballots to the state legislature in hearings in march (senate committee hearing), may (government operations interim session) and november (government operations interim session). Utah civic leaders seriously debated rcv and headed into 2018 with strong interest in enabling cities to try out rcv.california: our fairvote california project built on its terrific work in 2016 doing outreach about ranked choice voting to voters in four cities with the system. In preparation for major elections in these cities in 2018, it developed detailed plans for community outreach and developed new materials. Removing barriers to implementing rcv: our ranked choice voting resource center project on removing election administration barriers to rcv continues to have a clear positive impact. Progress in these areas include presentations and meetings with influential election officials, excellent success with rankedchoicevoting.org and associated we”