On Saturday, May 14, Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Dr. Scott Jensen won the endorsement of the state’s Republican Party in a multi-hour process that would have benefited from ranked choice voting (RCV).

Nearly three million voters went to the polls Thursday in Northern Ireland’s Assembly elections and Scotland’s local elections. Both contests demonstrated the promise of the single transferable vote, known in the United States as proportional ranked choice voting (PRCV).

Whenever a candidate takes office without support from a majority of voters, we are left wondering if things might have turned out differently if the race were narrowed to a contest between the two frontrunners. Unfortunately, from 1946 to 2021, 128 of the 1,092 gubernatorial elections nationwide - or 11.7 % - were won by candidates who won less than 50 percent of the vote.

Malta used proportional ranked choice voting (known internationally as the single transferable vote) to elect its parliament on Saturday, March 26, 2022.

Truck driver Edward Durr made headlines in November by defeating the Democratic leader of the New Jersey state senate after only spending $1,813 on his campaign. His only purchases? Flyers and donuts. This was an example of a broader trend in American elections generally and the New Jersey state elections specifically: partisanship is becoming one of the only factors that matters.

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.

On Friday, Warren made clear that she had evaluated all the evidence and concluded ranked choice voting was worthy of a resounding endorsement. Voters will decide in this November’s election whether they will offer the same seal of approval.

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.

More than 75 colleges and universities use RCV in their campus elections, and at least 13 colleges passed or implemented RCV within the 2019-2020 academic year.

On May 23 the 353 delegates of the Libertarian Party participated in a #RankedChoiceVoting poll through OpaVote to select their party’s presidential nominee.