This is the fifth San Francisco election cycle with instant runoff voting (now generally called “ranked choice voting” in San Francisco, so I’ll call it “RCV” in this opst). It can take time for political players to adapt to a new system and its incentives. In its first use in the city in 2004, ranked [...]

The Washington Post has a front page article today on its new poll in the tight presidential race in Virginia — one that is newsworthy in showing Democrat Barack Obama leading Republican John McCain in a state that a Democrat hasn’t carried since 1964.
The Post highlights Obama’s lead as 3% (49% to 46%), showing that [...]

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 [...]

The Nation Magazine editor’s Katrina vanden Heuvel has been a consistently clear, powerful voice for electoral reform. My hat is off to her for her terrific new call for action on electoral reform in the new Nation.
We’re of course pleased to see her feature our reform agenda: proportional representation, instant runoff voting, universal voter registration, [...]