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.

Last month, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), U.S. Representatives Nydia M. Velázquez (D-N.Y.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), introduced the Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act of 2021 -- a bicameral piece of legislation that would empower Puerto Ricans with an inclusive and democratic process to determine their own political future and relationship with the United States.

Unite America has published an insightful report detailing the benefits of implementing ranked choice voting along with non-partisan primary elections, exploring how a move away from traditional partisan primaries would benefit the American people and alleviate many of the problems facing the electoral system.

With large fields of candidates for the Virginia Democratic primaries, ranked choice voting allows participants to indicate their preference for multiple candidates.