American democracy is straining under countless pressures, many of them rooted in structural problems that go back to the nation's founding. Chief among them is the "pick one" plurality voting ...

New York City Democrats will choose their nominee for mayor in next week’s primary election. The city uses ranked choice voting, allowing voters to select up to five candidates in order of preference.

Virginia lawmakers are debating whether to broaden the use of ranked-choice voting in local elections. That is a welcome conversation. Letting voters rank candidates can reduce the spoiler effect, ...

New York City's mayoral election has become the race to watch because of its surprisingly competitive nature but also the electoral system that's helped it become so competitive: ranked choice voting.

In 2022, voters in Portland, Oregon, adopted a package of reforms to replace a commission government established in 1913. The old charter called for a small council and a peculiar version of at-large ...

Opponents of ranked-choice voting argue that system is overly complicated and can lead to more rejected ballots and delayed and less transparent results. In a ranked-choice voting election, it’s ...

As pointed out by a commentary from CalMatters, printed in The Union March 6, California's upcoming gubernatorial election exposes flaws in our current election system. There is a way to fix those ...

A bill prohibiting ranked choice voting passed out of the Indiana Senate Elections Committee on Monday. Even though Indiana doesn’t currently allow for that election method, those in support of the ...

The nonprofit group Ranked Choice Voting for Longmont, co-founded by University of Colorado Boulder student Dillon Rankin and former Longmont City Council at-large candidate John Lembke, held its ...

Rank MI Vote proposes a constitutional amendment to bring ranked choice voting to Michigan. Ranked choice voting requires winning candidates to secure at least 50% of the vote which might require ...

A bill prohibiting ranked choice voting passed out of the Indiana Senate Elections Committee on Monday. Even though Indiana doesn’t currently allow for that election method, those in support of the ...

While I won’t argue with the “Today in Ohio” podcasters in their view that, “Name something Ohio House Dems and Republicans agree on - blocking ranked-choice voting. It stops voters from replacing ...