WBUR with an explainer on the ranked choice initiative likely to make it to the ballot if the legislature doesn’t adopt something first. … Continue reading
Category Archives: alternative voting systems
Alaska Public Media reports on the progress of a proposition calling for a top-four primary, ranked-choice voting, changes to appointments to local election boards, and campaign finance reform, among others. … Continue reading
… in the Oscars race. It’s an alternative voting system for nominations (and in a few categories, for the final result): In the nominations voting, the marking and tabulation of all ballots shall be according to the preferential, weighted average, … Continue reading
The threshold signatures are in, and under Massachusetts’ system, now the legislature gets to decide whether to adopt the measures before putting them before the voters. … Continue reading
And Maura Reilly has a ranked-choice decade recap on the locations Massachusetts may be joining. … Continue reading
Ned at CNN: How can it be that our electoral system is so vulnerable to the personal fancies of individual plutocrats? I explore the answer in my new book, but the short of it is that our Electoral College was designed … Continue reading
David Daley makes the case. … Continue reading
Jack Santucci oped in NYDN. … Continue reading
Clarion Ledger: Secretary of State-elect Michael Watson says he will push to change Mississippi’s controversial two-part election process for statewide candidates. “I’m definitely supportive of moving away from the current system,” the Republican state senator told the Clarion Ledger Tuesday as he discussed … Continue reading
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Al.com: A federal district judge approved a proposed settlement in the voting rights lawsuit between the Alabama NAACP, Pleasant Grove residents Eric Calhoun, and Jennifer Ford and the city of Pleasant Grove. The settlement changes the city’s election method to cumulative voting. … Continue reading
FairVote reports. … Continue reading
John Schwartz in the NYT: Now, working with the nonpartisan group Unite America, she is connecting like-minded organizations that are trying to overhaul the democratic process of voting to make it less likely to reward partisanship. She is also raising funds to ensure that … Continue reading
FairVote release. … Continue reading
Release: A first-of-its-kind FairVote/YouGov poll of Democratic voters in the 2020 presidential race showcases the benefits of surveying through a ranked choice lens — allowing voters to rank issues and candidates in order of preference and giving greater insight into the state … Continue reading
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Bangor Daily News: In a surprise move, Maine lawmakers passed a bill Monday extending ranked-choice voting to presidential primary and general elections, though it’s unclear if Gov. Janet Mills backs it. She could stop it from taking effect before the … Continue reading
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See here, beginning at page 21. … Continue reading
AL.com: A proposed settlement has been reached in the voting rights lawsuit filed against the city of Pleasant Grove alleging the rights of black candidates and voters had been violated by the city’s use of at-large voting.Court documents filed late last … Continue reading
Wichita Eagle reports. … Continue reading
Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it has entered into an agreement to settle a voting rights lawsuit with the City of Eastpointe, Michigan. The Department’s lawsuit challenges the method of electing the city council in Eastpointe under … Continue reading
David Daley for Democracy. … Continue reading
Dave Daley and Rob Richie oped: Step aside, Super Tuesday — and say aloha to ranked-choice voting.While contests in 11 states on March 3 will elect the most delegates in the 2020 presidential primaries, it’s April 4 — and the … Continue reading
Here, at LPBR. … Continue reading
Steve Mulroy blogs. … Continue reading
Kim Bellware for NYT Opinion. … Continue reading
Rep. Jamie Raskin oped. … Continue reading
WaPo editorial. … Continue reading
The following is the third of three guest posts by University of Memphis law professor Steve Mulroy, sounding some themes from his fascinating new book, Rethinking US Election Law: Unskewing the System: This is the 3rd of a series of … Continue reading
[Bumping to the top because this original post was inadvertently incomplete.] The following is the first of three guest posts by University of Memphis law professor Steve Mulroy, sounding some themes from his fascinating new book, Rethinking US Election Law: … Continue reading
Portland Press Herald: With two courts ruling against him, the Republican will no longer dispute Jared Golden’s election, but maintains that Maine’s voter-approved system is unconstitutional and illegal. Rep. Bruce Poliquin on Monday dropped his legal challenge to the ranked-choice … Continue reading
Portland Press Herald: The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling is the latest blow to Rep. Bruce Poliquin’s battle against ranked-choice voting. A panel of federal judges Friday rejected Rep. Bruce Poliquin’s request for an emergency injunction to block Maine from certifying … Continue reading
Press-Herald: Rep. Bruce Poliquin is appealing a recent federal judge’s rejection of his lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of ranked-choice voting. Poliquin and three other residents of Maine’s 2nd Congressional District filed a notice of appeal on Monday, four days after … Continue reading
Here is the unsurprising court order. And see Roll Call: Maine Recount Is a Low-Drama Affair — Unlike the Election. … Continue reading
The Press Herald reports. … Continue reading
Watch at C-SPAN. … Continue reading
Larry Lessig for USA Today. … Continue reading
WaPo: Democratic challenger Jared Golden prevailed Thursday in a Maine congressional contest, defeating a Republican incumbent in the first federal race in the country in which a ranked-choice voting system was used to determine the winner. After Election Day, Golden, a state … Continue reading
BAN with a link to the order. … Continue reading
NPR reports. … Continue reading
Rob Richie blogs. … Continue reading
This idea seems to be gaining some traction in a way that it hasn’t before. … Continue reading
KFGO reports. … Continue reading
I have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, University of Chicago Law Review, Online). Here is the abstract: This paper is part of a symposium on Eric A. Posner & E. Glen Weyl’s recent book, Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy … Continue reading
Jack Santucci blogs. … Continue reading
Dave Daley for Democracy Journal, with the subhead: “If more states adopted ranked-choice voting, far fewer elections would include unsatisfactory, binary choices and minority-backed winners.” … Continue reading