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By offering more choices, ranked choice voting paired with proportional representation provides voters more power in their government and an even-greater reason to vote. It works for Cambridge.

On November 7th, 2017, Cambridge, Massachusetts voters will head to the polls to elect their city council and school board using ranked choice voting (RCV).

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Canada’s New Democratic Party Will Use Ranked Choice Voting to Elect Leadership

Growing up as the son of journalists, I was raised on a healthy diet of political arguments at the kitchen table. My passion for public policy came with a side of mashed potatoes. Despite my many attempts to change the topic to the playoff hopes of the Boston Red Sox, I could not successfully escape the “more important” issues facing our nation.