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| | New Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | New Party organizations have been key players in successful efforts to secure municipal and county living wage ordinances in Chicago, IL, Cook County, IL, Portland, OR, Multnomah County, OR, Missoula, MT, Minneapolis, MN, Madison, WI, and Dane County, WI. |
 | | Our current work and long-term strategy is to change states' election rules to allow fusion voting - a method of voting that allows minor parties to have their own ballot line with which they can either endorse their own candidates or endorse the candidates of other parties. |
 | | Through fusion, minor parties don't have to always compete in the winner-take-all two party system and can avoid "spoiling" - throwing an election to the most conservative candidate by splitting the votes that might go to two more progressive candidates (ours and another party's). |
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