The Virginia Attorney General’s Office now backs an effort for Virginia Beach to formalize and maintain its current district-based voting system over a system with at large representation. That’s ...

The Austin City Council opens 2026 on Thursday with its first meeting of the year. Before the gavel drops, here’s a look back at what was — by any measure — a busy year at City Hall. To mark the new ...

Paramount to our democracy is a ballot system that works and can be trusted by voters. That’s why the problems with Rensselaer County’s November election ballots are deeply troubling. The county’s ...

A mathematical deep dive into voting systems reveals why no democratic method can satisfy all basic rules of fairness at once, a discovery formalized in a Nobel Prize–winning theorem that still shapes ...

Santa Clara County voters can walk into 19 different vote centers and select their next chief property taxer starting Saturday. A total of 38 centers will be available throughout the county for the ...

Michigan voters might not decide next fall whether to switch the state’s elections to a ranked choice voting system. Organizers trying to get the ranked choice voting question on the November 2026 ...

A campaign for a 2026 ballot measure to overhaul Michigan elections by allowing voters to rank their preferred candidate in order of preference has halted its signature collection efforts. "Rank MI ...

Heavily Democratic California could elect a Republican governor for the first time in two decades as a result of its primary voting system, recent polling suggests. The Golden State has for over a ...

(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” ...