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… 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.

Gannett reports.

NYT column.

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… 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.

Jennifer Pae oped in Sacramento Bee.

Mike Parsons writes.

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… 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.