Category Archives: alternative voting systems

Federal District Court Rejects Constitutional Challenges to Maine Ranked Choice Voting in Congressional Election as Recount Proceeds without Drama

December 13, 2018, 7:53 amalternative voting systemsRick Hasen

Here is the unsurprising court order. And see Roll Call: Maine Recount Is a Low-Drama Affair — Unlike the Election.

“Poliquin’s election challenge faces long odds; Wednesday’s hearing is the start of a push to make Maine the national, legal test case for ranked-choice voting in any federal election.”

December 4, 2018, 7:46 amalternative voting systems, recountsRick Hasen

The Press Herald reports.

“Rob Richie Discusses Ranked Choice Voting & Election Reform”

November 23, 2018, 9:06 amalternative voting systemsRick Hasen

Watch at C-SPAN.

“Ranked-choice voting worked in Maine. Now we should use it in presidential races”

November 19, 2018, 9:50 amalternative voting systemsRick Hasen

Larry Lessig for USA Today.

“Democrat prevails in Maine congressional race that used ranked-choice voting system”

November 15, 2018, 8:45 pmalternative voting systemsRick Hasen

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,… Continue reading

“U.S. District Court Rejects Attempt to Stop Counting Maine Ranked-Choice Second Round of Ballots”

November 15, 2018, 9:19 amalternative voting systemsRick Hasen

BAN with a link to the order.

“Facing Defeat, Maine Republican Sues To Block State’s Ranked-Choice Voting Law”

November 13, 2018, 10:57 amalternative voting systemsRick Hasen

NPR reports.

“Ranked choice voting may affect partisan outcomes, but it always helps voters”

November 13, 2018, 7:37 amalternative voting systemsRick Hasen

Rob Richie blogs.

NYT Editorial Endorses Ranked Choice Voting for Congressional Districts

November 11, 2018, 12:21 pmalternative voting systems, redistrictingRick Hasen

This idea seems to be gaining some traction in a way that it hasn’t before.

“Fargo to become first city in U.S. to use approval voting”

November 10, 2018, 2:49 pmalternative voting systemsRick Hasen

KFGO reports.

QV Or Not QV? That Is The Question: Some Skepticism About Radical Egalitarian Voting Markets

November 7, 2018, 8:48 amalternative voting systems, theory, votingRick Hasen

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… Continue reading

“Why adopting proportional voting may bring back the big-tent political party”

November 5, 2018, 12:06 pmalternative voting systemsRick Hasen

Jack Santucci blogs.

“An End to Spoiler Candidates”

November 2, 2018, 7:30 amalternative voting systemsRick Hasen

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.”