Why support STAR Voting?:

  • More choice. Voters simply score candidates from 0 up to 5 stars.
  • STAR Voting eliminates spoilers and vote-splitting, so you can stop worrying about who you think can win and just focus on the candidates and the issues. 
  • STAR Voting incentives and rewards voters for voting honestly and expressively. 
  • STAR Voting elects majority preferred winners whenever possible.
  • STAR Voting would simplify the election process, shortening the election cycle where possible, and ensuring that our elected leaders are chosen in general elections only, when the most voters are paying attention and participating.
  • STAR Voting is fully compatible with our current election officiation processes and election integrity requirements, including vote by mail, hand count protocols, and risk limiting audit protocols. No new hardware would need to be purchased, and election results would be tallied and reported immediately. 
  • Simple implementation logistics and skipping unnecessary primaries means that transition costs to switch to STAR Voting would be relatively low. STAR would likely pay for itself within a few election cycles, and then would start saving taxpayers money. 
  • This is our chance to be a model for the rest of the nation.
  • Learn more about STAR Voting and alternative voting here. 

 

 

Launch A Campaign In Your Area!

Start or join a chapter, launch an initiative, revolutionize democracy. We have the tools to help you each step of the way. To be the spearhead for a campaign in your area email us at: [email protected].

 

 

Recent Campaigns:

 

STAR Voting Legacy Campaigns

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again!

 

STAR Voting for Oregon 2024

STAR Voting for Oregon was a citizens’ campaign to pass an initiative bringing STAR Voting to elections across Oregon, from local races to the presidential primary and general elections. With 33,683 signatures collected we suspended the canvass for IP-11 in February 2024 due to funding constraints. 

 

STAR Voting for Eugene 2024

STAR Voting for Eugene would implement STAR Voting for mayor and city council elections. Eugene elections are already nonpartisan, so STAR Voting would make a separate expensive primary election unnecessary. Voters would just vote once in November. This would save money for both the city and for candidates compared to the current system. 

The STAR Voting for Eugene Initiative began circulating on June 22nd in conjunction with the STAR Voting for Oregon Initiative Petition, which launched in January 2023, qualified for the ballot, and received 46% of the vote.

 

STAR Voting for Oakridge Pilot 2024

Oakridge City Council and the Charter Reform Commission referred a ballot measure to the voters to adopt STAR Voting as a pilot project for mayor and city council elections.  

STAR Voting for Oakridge Measure 20-364 wouldn't cost anything for the city and voters would get to try STAR Voting for three election cycles before voting to adopt it permanently. Oakridge city elections are already nonpartisan and are conducted through a single election in November, This would not change. 

The STAR Voting for Oakridge initiative was on the November 2024 ballot and received 46% of the vote, losing by only 99 votes. 

 

STAR Voting for Eugene 2020

The STAR Voting for Eugene campaign turned in 10,406 signatures to qualify for the May 2020 ballot, but despite turning in well over the 8,091 signatures required, the 2019-1 petition was erroneously found to be short 111 signatures and was deemed "void."

Eugene voters who were incorrectly rejected from the 20% sample for "signature mismatch" promptly signed and submitted affidavits affirming that they had in fact signed the petition and verifying the authenticity of their signatures. Counting these would have resulted in an additional 115 signatures being counted and the petition should have been placed on the ballot, but was not.

Eugene City Council then looked into the matter and confirmed that the signatures in question were from valid registered voters but declined to take action. A lawsuit followed immediately and though the court took no issue with the veracity of the signatures they refused to take action to correct the matter as the matter was "moot" because the election the initiative should have appeared on had already taken place. 

Please contact [email protected] for information on earlier campaigns. 

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