Category Archives: alternative voting systems

“Common Cause/NY Statement on BOE Issues”

June 30, 2021, 8:20 amalternative voting systems, election administrationRick Hasen

Release: Responding to the series of events today regarding the Board of Elections, Common Cause/NY Executive Director Susan Lerner, issued the following statement:“The BOE has now clarified that the discrepancy in the count was due to human error, not any… Continue reading

“New York Mayor’s Race in Chaos After Elections Board Counts 135,000 Test Ballots”

June 29, 2021, 9:05 pmalternative voting systemsRick Hasen

NYT: The New York City mayor’s race plunged into chaos on Tuesday night when the city Board of Elections released a new tally of votes in the Democratic mayoral primary, and then removed the tabulations from its website after… Continue reading

“How to Use Ranked-Choice Voting to Help or Hinder N.Y.C. Mayoral Candidates”

June 18, 2021, 6:42 amalternative voting systemsRick Hasen

Rob Richie NYT oped: New York City has embarked on the biggest ranked-choice voting election in American history with the Democratic primary for mayor on Tuesday. Plenty of New Yorkers are looking for advice on how to fill out their… Continue reading

Symposium on Ranked-Choice Voting

June 15, 2021, 5:23 amalternative voting systemsRichard Pildes

The journal Politics and Governance has devoted its most recent issue to a series of empirical studies of RCV: The Politics, Promise and Peril of Ranked Choice Voting (2021, Volume 9, Issue 2)Edited by Caroline TolbertComplete issue: www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/issue/view/251Table of… Continue reading

Is the Voting Reform that Draws the Most Bipartisan Support Ranked-Choice Voting?

May 25, 2021, 2:03 pmalternative voting systemsRichard Pildes

The Virginia GOP used RCV in its nominating convention this year. 23 cites in Utah, including Salt Lake City, voted recently to adopt RCV. Alaskan voters in 2020 adopted RVC for federal and statewide races. Maine voters in 2018 adopted… Continue reading

“Opinion: Ranked-choice voting works. Get used to it.”

May 13, 2021, 6:52 amalternative voting systemsRick Hasen

Karen Tumulty WaPo column.

“Ranked-Choice Voting Gains Momentum Nationwide”

March 13, 2021, 7:01 pmalternative voting systemsRick Hasen

Stateline: For decades, ranked-choice voting was largely theoretical, discussed in election policy circles but seldom used. Now it is gaining steam around the country: Lawmakers in 29 states are considering measures this year that would adopt ranked-choice voting in some… Continue reading

“How Long Can Democracy Survive QAnon and Its Allies?”

February 10, 2021, 6:52 amalternative voting systems, political polarizationRick Hasen

Tom Edsall NYT column: Has a bloc of voters emerged that is not only alien to the American system of governance but toxic to it?“The central weakness of our political system now is the Republican Party,” Daniel Ziblatt, a… Continue reading

Matt Shugart Makes the Case for Proportional Representation in Congress to Save the Country from Authoritarian Wing of Republican Party

January 19, 2021, 9:41 amalternative voting systemsRick Hasen

Shugart: Because the constitutional emergency is likely too deep to just turn the page, small-d democrats face an emergency of another kind. The need to adopt proportional representation has never been greater. The country simply can’t afford the risk that… Continue reading

“Why California Should Learn from Maine and Not Alaska on Electoral Reform”

December 28, 2020, 7:34 pmalternative voting systemsRick Hasen

Michael Feinstein blogs.

“A modest and timely proposal”

December 26, 2020, 8:39 pmalternative voting systemsRick Hasen

Jack Santucci: Democrats are fundamentally disadvantaged when it comes to winning U.S. House majorities. This is because their votes concentrate in population-dense areas. Independent redistricting cannot fix this. On all this, read Rodden (2019) and McGann, Smith, Latner, and Keena … Continue reading

“Lawsuit challenges Alaska’s new ranked-choice voting ballot measure”

December 3, 2020, 7:41 pmalternative voting systemsRick Hasen

Anchorage Daily News: The Alaskan Independence Party, its chairman and two Anchorage residents are suing the state of Alaska to overturn Ballot Measure 2, a sweeping election reform initiative that would install ranked-choice voting in Alaska…

“Florida Election Scandal Reveals Bigger Problems”

December 2, 2020, 8:21 amalternative voting systems, chicaneryRick Hasen

Rob Richie and Perry Waag: Election steal” took on a whole new meaning in Florida this year — and it has exposed a vulnerability in how we vote that invites more hacks in the future without an election method upgrade.Democrat… Continue reading