“Ranked-choice voting worked in Maine. Now we should use it in presidential races”
Larry Lessig for USA Today.
Category Archives: alternative voting systems
“Democrat prevails in Maine congressional race that used ranked-choice voting system”
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”
“Facing Defeat, Maine Republican Sues To Block State’s Ranked-Choice Voting Law”
“Ranked choice voting may affect partisan outcomes, but it always helps voters”
NYT Editorial Endorses Ranked Choice Voting for Congressional Districts
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”
QV Or Not QV? That Is The Question: Some Skepticism About Radical Egalitarian Voting Markets
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”
“An End to Spoiler Candidates”
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.”
“Can ranked-choice voting end ugly election battles? This November, Maine hopes to find out.”
“A new kind of voting faces Election Day test in Maine”
AP:
A new way of voting in Maine allows people to rank candidates from best to worst with provisions for additional voting rounds, candidate eliminations and extra tabulations to ensure there’s a consensus winner who collects a majority of the… Continue reading
“Port Chester voting referendum passes, cumulative voting here to stay”
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… Continue reading
“Fans of Ranked Voting See an Opportunity in Massachusetts”
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