Dillon Rankin is not your average 19-year-old. In 2024, he founded Ranked Choice Voting for Longmont, a nonpartisan, nonprofit political organization that advocates for — you guessed it — implementing ...

Here is a solution to cure the way California elects its governor.  We can keep the two-candidate final election. But for the ...

Top choice: Having candidates to vote for rather than against. Choice #2: Having more candidates to choose among. Choice #3: Being able to vote for more than one candidate, in order of preference.

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio – Ranked-choice voting – where voters rank multiple candidates on their ballot, instead of picking just one -- had a moment this summer, after political underdog Zohran Mandani ...

Maine has been navigating ranked-choice voting since 2016, but full implementation remains elusive Mainers decided to begin ...

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, ...

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 ...

While most voters are familiar with the single-choice voting method used in statewide races, there is still some confusion about ranked choice voting. Five cities — Minneapolis, St. Paul, Bloomington, ...

Ranked choice voting was sold to Alaskans as a cure for polarization. Supporters claim it gives voters more choice, forces candidates to appeal to broader groups, and leads to more representative ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—Ohio has become the 19 th state to ban the use of ranked-choice voting in elections, under legislation signed Tuesday by Gov. Mike DeWine. Under ranked-choice voting, each voter ranks ...