I want to welcome you all to a discussion about the possibilities of ranked Choice Voting, potentially solving a bunch of different challenges. This is an event in a series of events for new americas 20th anniversary. It was founded in 1999. We are creating a home for new generation of people and ideas across a wide range of Public Policy questions. I am kind of an of the oldtimers, although i was not here in 1999, although i knew the founders and saw the creation of it. Thefundamental ideas about political system had been part of the dna of this organization from the beginning, as my colleague reminded me that ranked voting was in the book that the founders wrote called the radical center. It was one of the ideas that they promoted. That book is not viable for what we do, but it is part of it. Informn i came back to the Political Reform Program in 2014, and our founding idea is that we introduce fresh and getting into the conversation about reforming american democracy and getting bey
Including if americans think president ial candidates should be required to release tax returns, and if citizens should be required to show government. D to vote ranked Choice Voting is a system that takes voters preference among candidates into account if no candidate receives a majority. Only 37 of voters prefer ranked choice over winner takes all systems. This is an hour and 20 minutes. Hello, good evening, and welcome to new america. I am glad we have such a nice room. I am the director of the Political Reform Program. I want to welcome you all to a discussion about the possibilities of ranked Choice Voting, potentially solving a bunch of different challenges. This is an event in a series of events for new americas 20th anniversary. It was founded in 1999. We are creating a home for new generation of people and ideas across a wide range of Public Policy questions. I am kind of an of the oldtimers, although i was not here in 1999, although i knew the founders and saw the creation of
Wild blue yonder. The news today that reminded americans and people all over the world what it feels like to dream and explore and what can happen when science and brain power and engineering combine to take us places far away. After traveling through space for ten years and doing five laps around the sun, a small spacecraft has landed on a comet and both are now hurtling through space at 40,000 miles an hour, traveling somewhere between mars and jupiter. Think of it this way, tonight as we come on the air there are american footprints on the moon, a rover driving across the surface of mars, now a spacecraft the size of a washing machine hanging onto a comet for dear life. We begin tonight with nbcs katy tur at the European Space Agency Headquarters in germany. Reporter these are pictures from 300 million miles away of something weve never seen this close before, the surface of a comet. The Mission Rosetta journey began a decade ago, today success. From Mission Control in germany to vi
D. C. Check point with an unregistered hand gun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition trying to enter an area he wasnt authorized to be in. He was later released from custody. And the pentagon authorizing 25,000 National Guard members to be in washington, d. C. To ensure a peaceful transition of power takes place wednesday when president elect joe biden is sworn into office. Thats more troops in d. C. Than in iraq, afghanistan and syria combined. And new tonight, weve learned the u. S. Postal service is taking the step of removing blue mailboxes in d. C. And several other major cities for security reasons. Meantime, multiple congressional committees opening investigations into last weeks riot and a damning report from the Washington Post that Capitol Police had intel three days before the attack that congress itself could be targeted by angry Trump Supporters. The fbi is warning of possibility of armed protests in all 50 states, leading State Capitols in all 50 statutes beefing up secur
That does it for the cycle. Martin, its all yours. Just a quick question. How many rounds did Jared Loughner fire off before he was tackled . Whats your point . How many rounds had he fired off . Im not sure. I dont remember. 31. Okay. He was actually tackled because he was reloading. We should be trying to stop crazy people and criminals, martin, from shooting one person, not tenplus one person which all is accomplished when you ban high capacity magazines. Thats all thats accomplished. Okay. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. Its tuesday, january the 15th, and the pressure is on the white house, congress, and the nation to take action and prevent another slaughter of innocent children. Our hearts are broken. Our spirit is not. This is our promise h the sandy hook promise. If there is a step we can take that will save even one child from what happened in newtown, we should take that step. My dad would always say ben is going to do amazing things, and i always say now i just didnt kn