Proportional ranked choice voting is a rising star among local municipalities in the U.S.

All five cities that held referendums to adopt ranked choice voting yesterday passed them by wide margins, even as RCV was defeated in a Massachusetts vote. The result in Alaska remains unclear as most votes have not yet been counted.

In the midst of a presidential election tabulation that could take days, with many states showing apparently close margins, it’s worth examining the impact of election recounts.

On Tuesday, October 27, FairVote hosted a webinar called The Conservative Argument for RCV as part of our Fall series on The Future of American American Elections.

Pollsters and election forecasters are keeping a wary eye on the upcoming Senate election in Maine, which has steadily become one of the most pivotal races in the 2020 election cycle.

After many long months of work on Rankit.vote, we are excited to announce the release of Rankit.vote 2.0!

Ranked choice voting is now a common feature of American political life, used in jurisdictions from coast to coast and likely to expand even further in 2020. That makes it increasingly important to know how to poll ranked choice elections well.

FairVote’s Presidential Candidate Events Tracker has found that almost three-quarters of all 2020 campaign events took place in just six swing states, while 37 states have received no campaign attention at all.

On Tuesday, October 13, entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang joined an installment of FairVote’s webinar series on The Future of American Elections.

On Thursday, October 1, FairVote hosted the third webinar in our Fall series about The Future of American Elections. The topic of the webinar was “Redefining representation for American voters.”