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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 ...
In primary elections, New York City voters can rank their top five choices for mayor, public advocate, comptroller, borough ...
Rank-choice voting is back in the spotlight in Denver. The big picture: Denver City Council members on Monday discussed a ...
A top aide on Scott Stringer’s campaign recently sent out highly misleading text message blasts to voters instructing them ...
This number, from January 2023, is based on voters who live in counties or states that use ranked-choice voting. The system has grown over the past two decades with 53 or so cities using it today.
For the first time, Portlanders used ranked choice voting to select their mayor and City Council members. They ranked candidates in order of preference, and their votes got distributed as ...
Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander—who’ve made climate a cornerstone of their campaigns, with real hopes that one or the other ...
In Maine and Alaska, voters in competitive congressional districts will elect a winner using ranked choice voting. Rather than cast a single vote for their preferred candidate, voters rank their ...
Initiatives related to ranked choice voting in political primaries and general elections were on the ballots in eight states and the District of Columbia. On the ballots were also an initiative ...
With five Republican candidates and six Democrats, a relatively small number of voters can determine the nominees from each ...
Alongside high-profile races last week, voters in several states also decided on ballot measures, including ranked-choice voting. While political reformers tout the system as a way to expand voter ...
In short: It’s ugly. But ranked choice voting advocates also suffered a pretty serious shellacking on Election Day, though they’re managing to be much less fatalistic about it. “It was a ...