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 ...
Allowing for “consensus choice” would improve ranked-choice voting in the commonwealth, Better Choices for Democracy’s Carah Ong Whaley writes.
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 ...
SALT LAKE CITY — The conservative backlash against ranked choice voting grew to over one-third of U.S. states last week as Iowa became the 17th Republican-controlled legislature in less than four ...
When voters hit the polls in Oakland's special mayoral election, they had more than one decision to make. Ranked choice voting has been used in Oakland since 2010, and it's led to some pretty ...
As political polarization continues to rise across the United States, a nonprofit group in Iowa is pushing for solutions to reduce partisan division.  Better Ballot Iowa, founded in 2020, advocates ...
Democratic voters in New Jersey must choose a nominee for governor next week from a crowded and contentious field – and polls show no one truly catching fire. The front-runner polls at about 30% of ...
In one of my first published columns ever, I advocated for ranked choice voting, which was at the time a lesser-known alternative way to conduct elections in which you rank several candidates in order ...
It's a new year, and we have a new Cincinnati City Council. Well, not really new − more like a retread with one new face. The part that we need to remember is that it was a vigorous and, at some ...
OPINION: Conservative pushback at progressive voting policies in the past few years has ramped up. The most divisive of these for Maine voters is the Ranked Choice Voting System that allows voters to ...
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 ...
When New Yorkers fill out ballots in Tuesday’s mayoral primary, they’ll be able to choose more than just one candidate. They can pick a second choice. And a third. And a fourth. And a fifth. It’s part ...