Ranked choice voting is gaining momentum across the country as a staggering number of state legislatures are considering reforming their local and statewide election methods.

In the first half of 2018, nearly half a million voters ranked their choices in elections for the most important offices in their communities.

Supporters of ranked choice voting felt the thrill of victory after a judge's ruling

In 2008, Memphis, Tennessee adopted ranked choice voting (RCV) by a landslide, with 70 percent of voters in favor of a city charter amendment. RCV, also known as instant runoff voting, allows voters to rank candidates in order of choice and eliminates the need for runoff elections.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Last Thursday, NYC Votes announced the winning design of this year’s “I Voted” sticker contest using ranked choice voting.

Catch up on the week’s electoral reform news with our round up of folks across the country writing and talking about FairVote reform vision.