Gannett: Cumulative voting will be the village’s permanent electoral system after a majority of residents voted in favor of the referendum Wednesday. The final vote tally was 746 in favor and 429 against it. Cumulative voting, which has been in place for … Continue reading
Category Archives: alternative voting systems
NYT: Nearly two weeks after voters went to the polls, Lori Trahan emerged Monday as the official winner of a crowded, 10-person Democratic primary for the congressional seat based in Lowell, Mass., held for a decade by Representative Niki Tsongas, … Continue reading
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David Daley: It’s a necessary step if North Carolina wants a congressional delegation that reflects the state’s closely divided nature. Without this action, it would be easy for Republicans to exploit the slow-moving legal process, appeal to the U.S. Supreme … Continue reading
Boston Globe editorial. See also this analysis by Sandy Maisel in The American Interest. … Continue reading
The SF Chronicle reports. … Continue reading
Jack Santucci has written this article for Representation. Here is the abstract: Ranked-choice voting (RCV) manufactures an electoral majority in a fragmented candidate field. For RCV to pass at referendum, part of a reform coalition must be willing to lose election … Continue reading
Details for Aug. 2 event. Maybe Dunlap will also answer questions about his lawsuit against Trump’s voter “fraud” commission. … Continue reading
White paper available here. See also this Elite Daily story and this FairVote post on Santa Clara’s single transferable vote proposal. Update: FairVote vote also has this post on its amicus brief in the California VRA case against Santa Clara urging RCV. … Continue reading
Oped from By SF election commissioners Charlotte Hill, Christopher Jerdonek and Viva Mogi: The current RCV system also facilitated higher voter participation than the previous December runoff system, which San Francisco used until 2004. Under that system, the first election occurred in November, followed by … Continue reading
AP: Maine‘s first crack at ranked-choice voting went off without a hitch, and backers of the voting method are hopeful the results will motivate other states to give it a try. The state finished its first ranked-choice process Wednesday when … Continue reading
Jack Santucci blogs. … Continue reading
Listen here. More editorials favoring RCV. … Continue reading
Portland Press-Herald: Mainers supported ranked-choice voting for the second time in two years with the passage of a people’s veto on Tuesday, making the state the first in modern times to overhaul its system for choosing candidates. Supporters of Question 1 … Continue reading
Eric Maskin and Amartya Sen NYT oped: A great deal turns on Tuesday’s primary elections in Maine. For the first time in America, ranked-choice voting — a system likely to reduce political polarization — will be used to choose candidates … Continue reading
This is a big deal: Ranked-choice voting can’t single-handedly fix America’s broken elections, but it’s a worthwhile experiment, and it’s already proved to make for a better process, particularly in candidate-heavy primaries. If it’s combined with other electoral reforms, like … Continue reading
WSJ reports. … Continue reading
Gannett reports. … Continue reading
NYT column. … Continue reading
Bangor Daily News: A federal judge on Tuesday threw out the Maine Republican Party’s last-ditch bid to decide its primaries by a plurality of votes, ensuring that both parties will use ranked-choice voting in four different races in the June election. The … Continue reading
Announcement via email: Recently the Ranked Choice Voting Resource Center hosted “From Idea to Implementation: A Ranked Choice Voting and Voting Systems Symposium.” Recordings of the live broadcasts and post-symposium Q&A documents (including links to the handouts and additional materials) … Continue reading
A new era. … Continue reading
Jennifer Pae oped in Sacramento Bee. … Continue reading
Mike Parsons writes. … Continue reading
Bangor Daily News: Ranked-choice voting will be used in Maine’s June primary elections, the state’s high court ruled on Tuesday in a massive win for supporters of the first-in-the-nation system that has faced constitutional scrutiny and run a political gauntlet in … Continue reading
John Porter and Rob Richie: As revealed in February indictments by Robert Mueller, Russian operatives weaponized an antiquated rule of American democracy: the loophole that allows candidates to win all of a state’s electoral votes with less than 50 percent … Continue reading
The Atlantic reports. … Continue reading
The latest from Maine. … Continue reading
FairVote weighs in. … Continue reading
Press Herald: Questions were swirling Thursday about whether Mainers will use the ranked-choice voting system in the June primaries after Secretary of State Matt Dunlap raised concerns about a conflict in the law. Dunlap said his office was notified late … Continue reading
Alex Keena, Michael Latner, Anthony J. McGann, and Charles Anthony Smith have written this post at the LSE Blog. … Continue reading
Rob Richie and Kevin Johnson oped in the Daily Beast. … Continue reading
AP: Maine election officials are racing to implement a new voting system in time for the June primary, marking the first use of ranked-choice voting in statewide primary elections. Secretary of State Matt Dunlap plans to submit proposed rules governing … Continue reading
Albuquerque Journal reports. … Continue reading
FairVote release. … Continue reading
Fairvote release: The people have spoken: they want to use ranked choice voting (RCV) in June and have a chance to keep the system in place for future primary and congressional elections. Matthew Dunlap, Maine’s secretary of state today certified … Continue reading
Michael Tomasky NYT oped: Now imagine that the state’s House delegation were chosen differently — nine from districts, and nine via general ticket. That latter group would have to win statewide. That means they’d be more likely to tailor a … Continue reading
Gannett: The Memphis City Council worked behind the scenes to find a sponsor for legislation this year that could ban instant-runoff elections statewide and forestall the Shelby County Election Commission from using the method for the first time in 2019. … Continue reading
Lee Drutman for Vox: Some good news came out of Maine last week. Supporters of ranked-choice voting delivered more than 80,000 signatures on behalf of a statewide referendum, well over the 61,123 they needed to get the measure on the ballot. That … Continue reading
NYT column. … Continue reading
Jack Santucci has written this article for Electoral Studies. Here is the abstract: New interest in “multi-winner ranked-choice voting” raises old questions about effects on party cohesion. Earlier scholars thought this single transferable vote (STV) rule was net-problematic for parties. … Continue reading
The Press Herald reports. … Continue reading
Albuquerque Journal reports. … Continue reading
Oped in Twin Cities Pioneer Press. … Continue reading
Albuquerque Journal reports. … Continue reading
Larry Diamond in The American Interest: The most promising change is ranked choice voting, sometimes called “the instant runoff.” Imagine that Arizona’s voters had serious options beyond a Democrat and a Republican, and that instead of voting for a single … Continue reading
Fairvote post. Would like to know how turnout did yesterday in other, similar cities without RCV. … Continue reading
That’s the results as of this moment. There are still (not many) provisional ballots to count and a possible recount. If the state had used instant runoff voting, it could have affected who controlled state legislative house. … Continue reading
Press-Herald reports. … Continue reading
Maine Public Radio reports. … Continue reading