But the two systems diverge when there is no majority winner. Plurality simply chooses the candidates with the most first-place votes, while ranked choice voting eliminates the person with the fewest ...

The part that we need to remember is that it was a vigorous and, at some points, an edgy election season. The previous ...

Three Alaskans sued state election officials Thursday, alleging that language adopted by the state for a ballot measure ...

Falls Church will be able to hold ranked-choice City Council elections as early as 2027, if current Council members want to make the switch. The city is on track to acquire new voting equipment that ...

Voters cast their ballots at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church in Mountain View. Photo by Sammy Dallal. Santa Clara County’s special assessor race has cost the county tens of millions of dollars. A ...

Santa Clara County's special assessor race in 2025 has cost the county tens of millions of dollars. A county advisory board said ranked choice voting would have avoided that. Amid winter storms and ...

The discussion about ranked choice voting for Illinois has gone quiet in the last year and a half, and you’d be forgiven for thinking it had been buried, killed by a fear of change. Happily, the ...

Moments of transition in Baltimore County’s election system test public trust. How we respond matters just as much as the outcome. On Christmas Eve, I received notice that a vacancy had occurred on ...

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose commented in a recent op-ed about what he sees as a problem with the party makeup of the governing councils of Ohio’s eight largest metropolitan cities: each ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Rank MI Vote, the ranked choice voting petition drive, has paused its effort to get the measure on the ballot. Pat Zabawa, executive director of Rank MI Vote, sent an email to ...

A campaign for a 2026 ballot measure to overhaul Michigan elections by allowing voters to rank their preferred candidate in order of preference has halted its signature collection efforts. "Rank MI ...

Michigan voters might not decide next fall whether to switch the state’s elections to a ranked choice voting system. Organizers trying to get the ranked choice voting question on the November 2026 ...