Electoral Reform, Part 2, with Drew Spencer, legal director at FairVote

Hosts Cecil Prescod and Celeste Carey speak with Drew Spencer, legal director at FairVote about the role that electoral reform played in the 2015 elections this year.
They will follow up on a discussion that KBOO host Lisa Loving had with Drew Spencer on Democracy in Motion on Friday. In this month's national election Ohio voters overwhelmingly passed a state constitutional amendment requiring that redistricting be done according to certain criteria by a bipartisan commission, and advocates of public financing of campaigns had big wins in Seattle and in Maine. Maine will also have a big push for electoral reform next year, when it will vote on whether to elect all state and congressional offices with ranked choice voting, allowing voters to rank candidates in order of choice, something voters successfully did in municipal elections in six different states this year (California, Colorado, Minnesota, Maryland, Maine, and Massachusetts).
How do these reforms work with respect to civil rights and social justice for people of color? What can we expect in these areas in the next election? What can be done now?