Virginia lawmakers are debating whether to broaden the use of ranked-choice voting in local elections. That is a welcome conversation. Letting voters rank candidates can reduce the spoiler effect, ...

Ranked-choice voting has grown in recent years, now used in 52 different U.S. cities, counties and states, most notably in Alaska, Maine and New York City. Indiana’s only cases of using ranked-choice ...

A bill prohibiting ranked choice voting passed out of the Indiana Senate Elections Committee on Monday. Even though Indiana doesn’t currently allow for that election method, those in support of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maine's ranked-choice 2024 presidential ballot. (Photo by Maine Morning Star) Amid a pivotal election year, Maine lawmakers are ...

Currently, towns and cities that want to implement ranked choice voting must first pass a home rule petition and then have it approved by the state legislature. MA bill would allow towns to implement ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The justices of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court hear arguments on about whether it is constitutional for the state to expand ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – As Albuquerque voters prepare to return to the polls for another election, questions about turnout and the voting process take center stage. Tim Krebs, a University of New Mexico ...

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COLUMBUS, Ohio—Ohio has become the 19th state to ban the use of ranked-choice voting in elections, under legislation signed Tuesday by Gov. Mike DeWine. Under ranked-choice voting, each voter ranks ...

Political pundits are busy parsing the results from the Illinois primaries for a sense of where the Democratic electorate stands headed into this fall’s midterms. These results don’t tell us what most ...