Category Archives: alternative voting systems
“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
Calls for Ranked Choice Voting in MA
Should the Three Judge Court Order Ranked Choice Voting for 2018 in North Carolina Partisan Gerrymandering Case?
David Daley:
It’s a necessary step if North Carolina wants a congressional delegation that reflects the state’s closely divided nature. Without this action, it would be easy for Republicans to exploit the slow-moving legal process, appeal to the U.S. Supreme… Continue reading
“For Better Elections, Give Ranked Choice Voting a Chance”
Boston Globe editorial.
See also this analysis by Sandy Maisel in The American Interest.
“Possible new election twist for voters who want to rank more than 3 choices: Try 10”
“Maine Ranked-Choice Voting as a Case of Electoral-System Change”
Jack Santucci has written this article for Representation. Here is the abstract:
Ranked-choice voting (RCV) manufactures an electoral majority in a fragmented candidate field. For RCV to pass at referendum, part of a reform coalition must be willing to… Continue reading
Maine SOS Matt Dunlap to Do Webinar on Maine’s Experience with Ranked Choice Voting
Details for Aug. 2 event. Maybe Dunlap will also answer questions about his lawsuit against Trump’s voter “fraud” commission.
FairVote on RCV in 2018
White paper available here. See also this Elite Daily story and this FairVote post on Santa Clara’s single transferable vote proposal.
Update: FairVote vote also has this post on its amicus brief in the California VRA case against Santa… Continue reading
“SF Elections are Working — and Getting Even Better”
Oped from By SF election commissioners Charlotte Hill, Christopher Jerdonek and Viva Mogi:
The current RCV system also facilitated higher voter participation than the previous December runoff system, which San Francisco used until 2004. Under that system, the… Continue reading