Ranked-choice voting allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference — first, second, and third choices. When counting, if a candidate gets more than 50% of first-choice votes, they win. If ...
Wearing a superhero costume, actor and filmmaker DezBaa’ emerged from the voting booth Friday afternoon after casting a ballot in the crowded Santa Fe mayor’s race. She’d done her homework. She’d ...
Students and speakers discussed political polarization and electoral reform at a panel held Monday evening by Yale Students for Ranked-Choice Voting — a nonpartisan political advocacy group. Adam Wood ...
Ranked-choice voting has grown in recent years, now used in 52 different U.S. cities, counties and states, most notably in Alaska, Maine and New York City. Indiana’s only cases of using ranked-choice ...
Fort Collins is using ranked-choice voting for the first time in its mayoral and some City Council races. Voters rank candidates in order of preference rather than selecting just one. A candidate wins ...
As Longmont settles into the aftermath of the City Council election, a familiar debate over voting methodology is gaining momentum. Former candidates and voting reform advocates say this year’s ...
Currently, towns and cities that want to implement ranked choice voting must first pass a home rule petition and then have it approved by the state legislature. MA bill would allow towns to implement ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – As Albuquerque voters prepare to return to the polls for another election, questions about turnout and the voting process take center stage. Tim Krebs, a University of New Mexico ...
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 ...
Long Beach residents may be able to decide on whether to implement a new way of voting as soon as the November general election, after two city commissions recently heard a proposal about ...
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 ...
A bill banning ranked choice voting in Indiana, which the state doesn’t utilize as a voting method, passed out of the Senate Tuesday. Senate Bill 12, authored by State Sen. Blake Doriot, R-Goshen, ...