Maine, ranked choice voting
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Unconventional ideas, such as shifting to a European-style proportional representation system, have gained adherents. Another option should top the list: a “majority rule” system that would preserve elements of elections that Americans are used to but make election results more representative of public opinion.
Albuquerque’s “progressives” are at it again. Ever since Republican Richard “RJ” Berry won a three-way election for mayor in 2009 (against two Democrats), Albuquerque has had runoff elections requiring candidates to achieve more than 50% of the vote.
On Tuesday, New York City residents cast their ballots for their favorite candidate in mayoral primary. They also chose their second, third, fourth and fifth favorites. That's because the country’s most populous city has changed the way voters cast their ...
Alaska’s new election system — with open primaries and ranked voting — has been a model for those in other states who are frustrated by political polarization and a sense that voters lack real choice at the ballot box. Used for the first time in 2022 ...
Fewer than 490 votes separate Analilia Mejia and Tom Malinowski in an absolute nailbiter of a primary to become the Democratic nominee in New Jersey’s 11th congressional district. Mejia holds a slender lead with about 91% of the vote counted as of early ...
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, encourage more civil campaigns and give people a fuller way ...
Mainers decided to begin using ranked-choice voting in elections for the state Legislature, governor and federal offices all the way back in November of 2016 — the first state in the nation to do so. But nearly a decade and multiple court cases later ...
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 bill cite the confusion the system causes as a reason to ...