Instant runoff voting and its ranked choice voting cousin, the choice voting method of proportional voting, are making key progress in the United States. Examples:
1. In North Carolina, the state legislature has sent to the governor legislation that would extend the current pilot program for localities for three more years. It included two amendment that [...]

June 3rd primaries included key U.S. Senate and U.S. House primaries in California, Montana and New Jersey. In a six-way race in Montana’s Republican U.S. Senate primary to face off against Democratic incumbent Max Baucus, Bob Kelleher, an 85-year-old perennial candidate who has run as a Green and a Democrat, received 36.3 percent of the [...]

Last week, FairVote held meetings with voting advocates and good government organizations to discuss electoral reform in New York City. Among the slate of measures recommended, one reform- instant runoff voting for city council vacancies seemed particularly timely considering the special election held earlier this week.
On Tuesday, fewer than 6500 voters headed to the polls [...]

In a hotly-contested eight-candidate race for its presidential nomination, the Libertarian Party has picked former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr as it 2008 nominee at its national convention in Denver today.
Although the best-known candidate coming into the convention, Barr was no shoo-in. He’s a former Republican congressman with a record of casting some votes that most [...]