to an alternate voting method called ranked-choice voting. Since the ballots allow voters to rank the candidates in order of preference, if no one has over 50% of the vote, there is no immediate ...

Ranked choice voting is an alternative electoral system that would mitigate the spoiler effect while giving voters more voice to express themselves at the polls, social choice theorists suggest.

Learn more about how ranked-choice voting works and try it out. Jazmine Hughes is a Metro reporter and a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. Sarah Almukhtar is a graphics editor based in ...

With five Republican candidates and six Democrats, a relatively small number of voters can determine the nominees from each ...

And lately one proposed reform seems to be rising to the top. "Ranked choice voting is the hot reform," said Larry Jacobs, a political science professor at the University of Minnesota.

Alaska’s elections utilize ranked-choice voting. Voters will rank their top four picks in each race. If no one wins a majority, the lowest-ranked candidate is eliminated and the second-choice ...

But the comics, videos, graphics and even explanatory documents ... Leah Benson, the county’s ranked-choice voting project manager, said a video explaining the multi-winner system’s ...

Source: Ranked choice data from New York City Board of Elections The graphics below show the final ... according to the latest ranked-choice voting tabulation. Jeff Mays, in New York July 6 ...

Voters will also decide on two key ballot measures: one that would abolish ranked choice voting and one that would increase its minimum wage and require employers to provide paid sick leave.