Rep. Don Beyer just reintroduced the Fair Representation Act (FRA) in Congress, which would implement ranked choice voting and multi-member districts for congressional elections. Since its inception, the bill has been hailed by academic leaders in the United States and around the world as a way to fix our broken elections, eliminate gerrymandering, and tackle America’s growing crisis of polarization. Here are some examples of what they have said.

This year, New York City is seeing huge numbers of candidates filing to run for the first City Council elections with ranked choice voting (RCV) in the city. The upcoming primaries on June 22nd are a huge moment for RCV, as the largest city in the nation adopts a fairer method of counting votes.

On Sunday, June 6th, voters across Peru will get to choose between two candidates for President, both of whom received fewer than 20% of votes just two months ago.

A record 23 cities have opted in to hold RCV elections in 2021, including Salt Lake City, which boasts a population of nearly 200,000. This nearly doubles the number of cities using RCV in the US.

Last Saturday, Austin became the first city in Texas, and the second-largest city in the country, to adopt ranked-choice voting. The measure passed 59-41 in a low-turnout, off-cycle election. Seven of our ten city council districts favored RCV by a margin of 2-to-1. It was one of the most popular items on an eight-proposition-long ballot.

If parties want to look to the future to reform their nominating processes, they also need to look to the past.

While Virginia Republicans have already embraced ranked choice voting for their nominating convention on May 8, new support for ranked choice voting continues to gain traction across the state.

A growing number of colleges and universities are making the switch to utilizing Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) in their student elections.

Election cycle after election cycle, the battle for control of Congress is being waged in a smaller and smaller sliver of the United States. FairVote found in its 2020 Monopoly Politics Report that more than 80% of House districts were “safe” districts that were locked down by one major party or the other, with such little hope of electoral competition that we projected winners two years before the actual election.