Competition is the missing ingredient from American primary elections.

Election reform moved forward this cycle, but there is more work to be done.

A plethora of disturbingly low plurality wins in the 2018 primaries exemplify the need for ranked choice voting.

Low turnout and high costs plague Oklahoma's primary runoffs. Ranked choice voting offers a better option.

Political scientist Yascha Mounk talks Maine, RCV and democracy on FV's podcast.

Elections are opportunities in consensus building. Ranked choice voting can help get us there.

Across both the states and Congress, those who are elected often do not reflect the age, gender and ethnicity of their constituents. For many, the way that the US elects its politicians is now no longer fit for purpose.

After months of waiting, Georgia voters will return to the polls tomorrow for a number of primary runoff elections. In these races—for Republicans, governor and lieutenant governor and for Democrats, the 6th and 7th Congressional Districts—no candidate received a first round majority.

"No single change to our voting system would have a more profound and positive impact on our politics."

In early June, more than 93,000 people cast their ballots in the GOP primary for Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District. For voters in 40 of the 50 states, that’s the end of the line: the candidate with the most votes advances to the general election, even if opposed by most of the voters.