Nearly three-fourths of voters in two key Florida Republican congressional primaries did not vote for the winning candidate, raising questions about the fairness of a plurality election system that enables candidates to win without majority support.

The Republican Party of Virginia used ranked choice voting (RCV) to choose the party’s new chairperson over the weekend. 

Our recent #RankedChoiceVoting poll asking Democratic and independent voters to rank their preferences among seven possible running mates for Biden. The results were, in a nut shell, prescient.

In Tennessee’s August 6 First Congressional District GOP Primary, eventual winner Diana Harshbarger emerged victorious with 19.2 percent support—meaning, in essence, that more than four in every five Republican voters did not vote for her.

Most American elections use the same, supposedly-simple system: plurality voting, where whoever gets the most votes wins even if a majority of voters support one of the other candidates.

Almost exactly 100 years ago, the ratification of the 19th amendment granted women the unabridged right to vote in American elections.

Virginia’s 7th Congressional District Republican Convention on July 18 lasted nearly 10 hours in 97 degree heat as the party conducted three rounds of voting to choose its congressional nominee.

On July 22, @FairVote released a new report examining the use of #RankedChoiceVoting in four Democratic presidential primaries and one caucus in 2020.

On Tuesday, July 21, FairVote hosted a webinar titled “The Success of RCV in the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary.”

This year, both major parties have found ranked choice voting (RCV) an important tool for improving their party elections and primary elections. Although much of the attention to this has focused on the Democrats’ use of RCV in presidential primaries across five states, Republicans have also successfully used RCV in a number of cases, recognizing RCV as a proven system that can save voters time and make elections fairer for everyone involved.