“Conservatives Should Look MoreClosely at Systemic Election Reforms”
New report from Kevin Kosar for AEI.
Category Archives: alternative voting systems
GOP Presidential Caucus in U.S. Virgin Islands Will Use Ranked Choice Voting
Parsons, Penrose, and Carroll: “Pico & Proportional Ranked Choice Voting”
The following is a guest post from G. Michael Parsons (Senior Legal Fellow, FairVote), Drew Penrose (Policy Consultant, FairVote), and Terrance Carroll (Senior Fellow for Voting and Democracy, FairVote):
The California Supreme Court’s decision in Pico Neighborhood Association v. City … Continue reading
“The False Promise of Party-Centric Reform”
Seamus Allen:
But what change to pursue? For the vast majority of the public, the end goal is clear: we want a democracy that provides representation for all. To accomplish that, the US needs to adopt some form of proportional… Continue reading
“Ranked choice voting deserves a place in presidential primaries”
Dave Daley oped in the Boston Globe.
Cal. Supreme Court decides CVRA case
The California Supreme Court is out with an important opinion today in Pico Neighborhood Ass’n v. City of Santa Monica: a ruling on the California Voting Rights Act and some of the ways in which it’s distinct from (and… Continue reading
“Sorting Out the Kinks in Ranked-Choice Voting”
Walter Olson, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, has this comment on the Arlington (VA) county board’s recent decision not to use ranked-choice voting in its upcoming general election. He concludes “it’s too soon to pronounce whether Saturday’s announcement represents… Continue reading
ASU Report on Voter Attitudes about Elections
From the hotbed — no pun intended (sorry Arizonans, I know it’s been sweltering) — of election denialism comes this report by Arizona State’s Center for Independent and Sustainable Democracy. Highlights from the press release:
Arizona voters strongly support… Continue reading
“Another campaign complaint filed against opponents of Alaska ranked choice voting”
Alaska Public Media:
On Monday, Alaskans for Better Elections filed a complaint against former Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka, a nonprofit that she operates and Alaskans for Honest Elections, which is campaigning to repeal ranked choice voting in… Continue reading
“Arlington reverses use of ranked-choice voting system for fall elections”
WaPo:
The Arlington County Board declined to move forward Saturday with ranked-choice voting for November’s general election, halting the Northern Virginia suburb’s experiment with the increasingly popular voting system, for now.
Local lawmakers had voted last fall to institute… Continue reading
“Column: Think our politics stink? Look north — to Alaska”
Mark Barabak LAT column:
The notion is that by competing en masse not just to finish first but also to be voters’ second choice, successful candidates will have to appeal to a broader segment of the electorate.
As experts recently explained in… Continue reading
“Oregon lawmakers send ranked choice voting proposal to November 2024 ballot”
KTVZ:
The Oregon Legislature on Sunday’s final day of the session passed House Bill 2004, which puts a proposal to move to ranked choice voting for federal and statewide races on the statewide ballot in November 2024.
“A group offered cities money to opt in to ranked choice voting. State elections office warns accepting that is likely illegal”
In response to a question at a city council meeting, an advocacy organization’s representative apparently noted that one county’s implementation of RCV might cost an extra $36,000 for software licensing, ballot design, and the like … and that the… Continue reading
“Mathematical Flaws in Ranked Choice Voting Are Rare but Real”
That’s the title of this new piece, accompanying this new paper (with a title that I prefer, not that anyone’s asking: “An Examination of Ranked Choice Voting in the United States, 2004-2022”).
The authors identify the “primary value of… Continue reading