It’s no secret that when it comes to elections, D.C. residents aren’t the best at showing up to the poll. In the 2010 mayoral primary, the D.C. Board of Elections reports that 134,342 people voted. D.C.’s population in 2010, according to the Census Bureau was 601,767. So yeah, not a large percent of D.C. residents vote.

Today, Councilmember David Grosso (I-At Large) introduced three new bills to help change that. The first bill, the “Instant Runoff Voting Amendment Act of 2014,” aims to “provide a method of casting and tabulating votes whereby voters would be able to rank candidates in the order of their choice and the candidates with the least number of votes would be eliminated.”

While Instant Runoff Voting aims to allow voters to support their preferred candidate without “throwing away their vote,” so to speak, some argue that it is a flawed system. The Center for Election Science has an interesting analysis on the problems of Instant Runoff Voting.

The second bit of legislation, the “Open Primary Elections Amendment Act of 2014,” will target independent voters, allowing registered voters the opportunity to change party affiliations through election day.

And the final bit of legislation he introduced builds upon the Council’s already enacted push towards campaign finance reform. The “Clean Hands Election Reform Amendment Act of 2014” would require candidates to get certification from the Office of Campaign Finance that they, nor any of their previous campaigns or political committees, owe any back taxes before getting on the ballot.