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 ...

Sixteen Republican-leaning states have thus far prohibited ranked choice voting in their elections. A bill before the Indiana legislature (Senate Bill 12) means our state could soon join them.

D.C. is moving forward with ranked-choice voting in next year’s June primary election, after an attempt by a group of D.C. lawmakers to delay the new voting method failed on Tuesday. D.C. Council ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the first round of ballots were counted on Election Night, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter outpaced Kaohly Her by 1,727 votes — ...

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, ...

The prospect of making Annapolis the second Maryland jurisdiction to use ranked-choice voting in local elections drew 20 residents and advocates to speak out Monday at the Annapolis City Council ...

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 ...

The Michigan Association of County Clerks has voted unanimously to oppose a potential ballot measure that would change how voters in the state pick their candidates. The association in a resolution ...

A bill banning ranked choice voting in Indiana, which the state doesn’t utilize as a voting method, passed out of the state Senate on Tuesday.