Usually, elections in the U.S. are dominated by fields with only two candidates who are seen as viable - particularly in general elections.

Ranked choice voting is gaining momentum across the country as a staggering number of state legislatures are considering reforming their local and statewide election methods.

Last month, former State Senator Shenna Bellows was sworn into office as the first woman to hold the position of Maine Secretary of State. It was also the first time Ranked Choice Voting was used in the selection process.

New York City approved the creation of the 2019 Charter Revision Commission, which was designed to review the entire Charter and the functions and processes of the City government.

The need to reform America’s democracy is a desire felt across the political spectrum.

2020 was a watershed year for the #RankedChoiceVoting movement. Legislation favorable to RCV passed in VA and UT, RCV was approved in 7 out of 8 ballot measures, and RCV was used successfully for the first time in 5 Democratic presidential primaries.

Every election cycle, FairVote uses a powerful tool called Monopoly Politics to predict the results of all 435 House of Representatives elections - two years before they actually occur.

FairVote has joined the Level the Playing Field v. FEC lawsuit seeking to prohibit the use of an unreasonably high polling threshold for presidential candidates to access the debates held by the Commission on Presidential Debates.

As most of the 2020 election cycle has wrapped up, citizens have seen all levels of governments take shape, however, the composition of the U.S. Senate will remain incomplete until January, when the Senate runoff elections are called in GA.