But the two systems diverge when there is no majority winner. Plurality simply chooses the candidates with the most first-place votes, while ranked choice voting eliminates the person with the fewest ...
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 ...
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 system ...
The state doesn’t currently allow for the voting method, but some legislators want to ban it from being an option in the ...
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 ...
Ranked-choice voting has grown in recent years, now used in 52 different U.S. cities, counties and states, most notably in ...
(THE CONVERSATION) 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” ...
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 ...
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 ...