Nevada’s innovative use of RCV in 2020 gave greater voice to voters
Posted on What's New Deb Otis on May 16, 2022

On Saturday, May 7, Republican voters in Virginia’s 11th Congressional District used ranked choice voting (RCV) to nominate Jim Myles as their 2022 candidate for U.S. House. This is the first use of RCV to nominate a congressional candidate in Virginia’s 11th, which comprises most of Fairfax County, the City of Fairfax, and part of Prince William County.
Read moreRanked Choice Voting in VA-11 GOP Primary: Initial Analysis
Posted on What's New Will Mantell And Deb Otis on May 10, 2022

On Saturday, May 7, Republican voters in Virginia’s 11th Congressional District used ranked choice voting (RCV) to nominate Jim Myles as their 2022 candidate for U.S. House. This is the first use of RCV to nominate a congressional candidate in Virginia’s 11th, which comprises most of Fairfax County, the City of Fairfax, and part of Prince William County.
Read moreHow the Fair Representation Act Can Solve the “Primary Problem”
Posted on What's New Rachel Rappaport on May 03, 2022

Between partisan gerrymandering and geographical sorting, more and more congressional districts are safely red or blue. This means that in a red district, whoever wins the Republican primary will win the general election with ease. The same can be said for the winner of the Democratic primary in a blue district.
Read moreFairVote’s Scholarship Makes the Case for RCV in Presidential Primaries
Posted on What's New Lucy Kaufman on August 11, 2021

This year, FairVote’s Rob Richie, Ben Oestericher, Deb Otis, and Jeremy Seitz-Brown wrote a 10-page article for Politics and Governance about how the use of ranked choice voting (RCV) ballots in presidential primaries both preserves the right of voters to elect their party’s nominee while encouraging candidates to build a majority coalition within their party and reflect its values in order to secure the nomination.
Read moreRanked choice voting offers improvements to presidential primaries
Posted on What's New Lucy Kaufman on June 17, 2021

As the last few presidential primary election cycles have shown, the selection of a major party’s nominee has a profound impact on the American political ecosystem. Recent primary cycles have seen increasingly crowded fields
Read moreCongressional election security bill includes key ranked choice voting provision
Posted on What's New Drew Penrose on June 26, 2019

Ranked choice voting is garnering more allies in Congress. The Election Security Act retains a provision from H.R. 1 that helps advance the movement for ranked choice voting.
Read moreWhat is ranked choice voting?
Posted on What's New Mikhaila Markham on April 10, 2019

Instead of choosing just one candidate, why not allow voters to rank all the contestants in order of preference? Ranked choice voting would not only eliminate the spoiler effect, but it would reduce strategic voting and jumpstart America’s transition away from the two-party system.
Read moreThe primary problem with American primaries: lack of competition
Posted on What's New Erica Frazier on December 17, 2018

Competition is the missing ingredient from American primary elections.
Read moreTwo reforms emerge to boost turnout, competition after 2018 primaries
Posted on What's New Kevin Johnson on September 21, 2018
Election reform moved forward this cycle, but there is more work to be done.
Read more2018 primaries made history, including in low plurality wins
Posted on What's New Nancy Lavin on September 20, 2018

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