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In multi-candidate fields, #RankedChoiceVoting polls are better able to capture candidates’ breadth of support and anticipate which candidates are best positioned to assemble a majority coalition.
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We’re only halfway through 2020, but ranked choice voting (RCV) has already had enough victories to fill a full year!
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After a week of waiting, the results are officially in: former Marine Amy McGrath has won Kentucky’s June 23 Democratic Senate Primary and will take on incumbent Mitch McConnell in November’s general election.
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Katherine Gehl, founder of the Institute for Political Innovation, and Michael Porter, a Harvard Business School professor, believe that, with tweaks and imagination, the political system can be made to work for all Americans.
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Virginia Republicans (@VA_GOP) used #RankedChoiceVoting (RCV) as a way to choose stronger nominees at their local conventions.
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Netflix’s “Patriot Act with Hasan Minaj,” takes a deep dive on the winner-take-all electoral system and endorses ranked choice voting.
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Virginia became the latest state in the Union to pass legislation allowing its municipalities to opt-in to using #RankedChoiceVoting for local elections.
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After 9 years of using a different ranked choice system, the Board of Governors of the Oscars Academy just updated the RCV system they use to choose the Oscar nominees for Best Picture to a Multi-Winner RCV model, known abroad as Single Transferable Vote.
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In honor of the 108th anniversary of the 1912 Republican Party convention (which made William Howard Taft nominee, leading Teddy Roosevelt to mount a third-party bid), we examine the election – and wonder what might have been if #RankedChoiceVoting had been used.
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the American Academy of Arts and Sciences released a comprehensive report detailing strategies intended to reinvigorate American democracy by 2026 including #RankedChoiceVoting in federal and local elections and the creation of multi-member districts with representatives selected via RCV.
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