Another Election Day winner: Ranked choice voting in Minneapolis
Posted on Quick News Rich Robinson on November 10, 2017

Seems voters and candidates in Minneapolis were really happy with its ranked choice voting system.
Read moreOnce again, the people are taking up the fight to bring RCV to Maine
Posted on What's New Rich Robinson on November 10, 2017

With a legislature looking to repeal Maine's new ranked choice voting law, the people find themselves once again fighting for RCV.
Read moreThirty-eight proposals for repairing “our badly broken civic life”
Posted on What's New Myeisha Boyd on November 03, 2017

People are realizing now more than ever that fixing American democracy begins with how politicians are elected into office. The division displayed in our politics today shows the need for reforms that would change politics for the better, including how we elect representatives into office in the first place.
Read moreVoting Defines a Democratic Society
Posted on What's New Author Maria Perez, Craig O'hare on October 18, 2017

Nine years ago, Santa Fe voters overwhelmingly approved changes to the city charter that included a ranked-choice voting election process.
Read moreWhy Ranked Choice Voting is the Right Thing for Santa Fe
Posted on What's New Author Maria Perez on July 14, 2017

For the first time in Santa Fe, New Mexico history, there will be a full-time mayor elected in March of 2018 with additional powers, duties and a higher salary. It is important that the majority of Santa Fe voters elect the new mayor with ranked choice voting (RCV), an electoral reform that was approved by city voters 9 years ago and has yet to be implemented.
Read moreRanked Choice Voting Remains the Law of the Land in Maine
Posted on What's New Austin Plier on June 30, 2017

A bill to repeal Maine’s first-in-the-nation adoption of ranked choice voting for all state races died in the state’s legislature on Wednesday, June 28th, 2017.
Read moreEvaluating the Efficiency Gap as a Measure of Proportionality and Competition
Posted on What's New Theodore Landsman on May 31, 2017

The “efficiency gap” was first proposed by Stephanopoulos and McGhee in a 2015 paper, and it has emerged as a way to prove evidence of bias that even defenders of distorted maps could not deny.
Read moreLocal Elections in Texas Demonstrate the Power - and Limits - of Cumulative Voting Rights
Posted on What's New Maya Efrati on May 19, 2017

On May 6th, voters in more than 50 Texas jurisdictions went to the polls to elect local representatives with cumulative voting rights. Cumulative voting, a form of fair representation voting, has been successful in empowering racial and ethnic minority voters in Texas, but this year’s election demonstrated its limitations as well.
Read moreNew NYC "I Voted" sticker chosen with ranked choice voting
Posted on What's New Ethan Fitzgerald on May 17, 2017

Last Thursday, NYC Votes announced the winning design of this year’s “I Voted” sticker contest using ranked choice voting.
Read moreThinking "Outside the Vox" on Best Picture and Ranked Choice Voting
Posted on What's New Rob Richie on February 20, 2017

Ranked choice voting is a smart system for the Oscars to use after increasing its number of Best Picture nominees. It's not rewarding mediocrity, but at least making sure that the "passion vote" is backed up with a majority vote.
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