Due to the COVID-19 crisis, Alaska became the latest state to conduct an election entirely with VBM, joining Colorado, Utah, Hawaii, and Washington. This provides a stark contrast from Wisconsin’s, in which 48,875 votes were wasted.

Ranked choice voting (RCV) continues to gain steam in local elections, as Basalt, Colorado recently conducted its first-ever mayoral election using the method.

With social distancing in mind, political parties across the country are grappling with the transition to virtual operations—and a trend is emerging. To conduct their business, parties spanning the ideological spectrum are increasingly turning to ranked choice voting.

Washington’s vote-by-mail primary was on March 10th and ballots were accepted if they were postmarked by that date.

Our Senior Comm’s Fellow David Daley went live on Facebook Monday afternoon to talk about the current state of our Democracy, his new book, Unrigged, and the four states that implemented vote-by-mail and ranked choice voting ahead of the Covid-19 crisis.

Unite America, a nonpartisan good-government advocacy group, has released a white paper detailing measures state and federal authorities must take to strengthen voting procedures in upcoming local and national elections.

It’s time for our elections to reflect the desires of the voters - no more strategic voting.

Both US Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-2) and former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld announced this week that they are ending their campaigns.

Alaskan voters will get the chance to adopt statewide ranked choice voting (RCV) after the state’s Division of Elections certified a three-pronged ballot measure submitted by Alaskans for Better Elections, a bipartisan advocacy group.

The 2020 presidential primary season is in full swing. The Democratic Party had a large field of candidates, many of whom have since dropped out. While the remaining candidates have been declared the winners, there has been one clear loser: the majority of voters.