Political polarization is one of the greatest threats to our system today, and replacing our current plurality voting with RCV will facilitate the emergence of third parties by eliminating wasted ...

to a majority system, like how the city of Savannah votes now. Plurality voting is when a candidate or issue that receives the most votes wins. Majority voting requires a candidate or issue to get ...

The 2025 federal election demonstrates the failings our electoral institutions from a democratic perspective. But here it is ...

Ranked-choice voting, also known as instant-runoff voting ... voters have for candidates than is possible in our … plurality system,” says Charles Stewart, founding director of the ...

But the candidates are not to blame. The problem is the standard voting system, called “plurality voting,” where a voter can just vote for one candidate. Most political scientists agree that ...

The Park City Council overturned its decision to use ranked choice voting for the 2025 election. The reversal came during a ...

The current “winner-take-all” voting system allows candidates to avoid gaining bipartisan support because they can win with a plurality of votes. Our current voting system also encourages political ...

She also said she’d been informed that about half of the precinct voters had cast early voting ballots ...