This week, votes for progressive candidate Sim Sang-jung may have swung the results in the closest-ever South Korean presidential election. Conservative Yoon Suk-yeol won the race with 48.56% of votes, with progressive Lee Jae-myung taking 47.83%. Sim earned 2.37% – or nearly three times more than the final margin between Yoon and Lee.

On March 8, RepresentWomen will kick off their first ever Solutions Summit, bringing together experts in election administration, voting rights, and democracy reform. Over the three day event, they’ll discuss a variety of reforms that would improve democracy for every American - such as the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, independent redistricting commissions, and the Fair Representation Act (FRA).

This week, the New York Times and Washington Post published op-eds celebrating Alaska’s new ranked choice voting election system, which will be used for the first time this year.

With many of us heading into holiday vacation, it’s a great time to listen to FairVote CEO Rob Richie’s recent appearance on How Do We Fix It?, a podcast focusing on solutions to some of our society’s most intractable problems.

Alaska is on track to use ranked choice voting statewide for the first time in 2022, joining Maine as the first states to use the increasingly popular reform for their highest profile elections.

Earlier this month, 20 Utah cities held their municipal elections using ranked choice voting (RCV). How did it go? As reported in the Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News, the verdict is in.

On Tuesday, Senate President pro tempore Patrick Leahy introduced the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act in the Senate. The bill already passed the House of Representatives in August, where it was sponsored by Alabama Representative Terri Sewell.

Today, FairVote Senior Fellow Dave Daley published an Op-Ed in the New York Times explaining why multi-member House districts with ranked choice voting would be a powerful solution to the extreme partisan gerrymandering we have seen so far in 2021

Philadelphia’s city council recently announced it will consider ranked-choice voting (RCV) in future elections.

Once again, Canada’s system of plurality voting in single-member districts has done a poor job of serving the public. Though some ballots remain to be counted, a few trends are clear.