Ranked Choice Voting Wins in 2020
Posted Adam Ginsburg on July 01, 2020

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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We’re only halfway through 2020, but ranked choice voting (RCV) has already had enough victories to fill a full year!
Read moreAfter 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.
Read moreKatherine 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.
Read moreVirginia Republicans (@VA_GOP) used #RankedChoiceVoting (RCV) as a way to choose stronger nominees at their local conventions.
Read moreNetflix’s “Patriot Act with Hasan Minaj,” takes a deep dive on the winner-take-all electoral system and endorses ranked choice voting.
Read moreVirginia became the latest state in the Union to pass legislation allowing its municipalities to opt-in to using #RankedChoiceVoting for local elections.
Read moreAfter 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.
Read moreIn 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.
Read morethe 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.
Read moreRunoff elections exist to ensure party nominees have broad support among voters. However, this system breaks down in competitive and crowded primary races, and Tuesday’s 2020 Republican Primary in GA 9th District is a timely example of what can go wrong.
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