Social Media Ideas for Ranked-Choice Voting

Ask Political Wire: The Tradeoffs of Ranked-Choice Voting

A Political Wire reader asks about the pros and cons of ranked-choice voting — and, more importantly, who benefits from it. The basic idea is straightforward: Instead of choosing o...

Ranked-Choice Voting Puts Fringe Candidates on Ballot

“Alaska’s House and Senate contests are set for November’s general election, after the results in the state’s nonpartisan top-four primary put fringe candidates on the ballot, incl...

A ranked-choice election in Maine: Using voting data to understand preferences

Evan Rosenman writes: The implosion of Graham Platner’s Senate campaign in Maine has upended a marquee Senate race, leaving the state Democratic party just a few weeks to choose a...

Alaska's Ranked-Choice Voting Travesty

Alaska's Ranked-Choice System Delivers Another Fiasco

Trump Rants Against ‘Crooked’ Ranked-Choice Voting in Increasingly Odd Senate Race: ‘They Throw Everybody Into a Hat’

President Trump went on a tear at the White House against ranked choice voting, dismissing it as "crooked" while discussing an unusual race in Alaska. The post Trump Rants Against...

Advocates say ‘top 3’ elections would address Ohio voters’ discontent

COLUMBUS — Ohio should implement an election system that allows all voters to choose their favorite candidate during the primary regardless of party affiliation, according to a bip...

Letter: Hawaii must update its ranked-choice rules

In the Aug. 16 editorial, it was suggested that the drawing of lots to ultimately decide the winners in two recent primary races was somehow wrong, and this is why the ranked-choic...

A Decade After Hillary Clinton’s Historic Presidential Run, the DNC Is Fighting Over Ranked-Choice Voting

Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in t...

Survey Statistics: quantifying uncertainty in ranked choice voting polls

We’ve talked about uncertainty in polls (see Margin of Error, Total Margin of Error, Total Margin of Error II) and we’ve talked about ranked data (see exploded logit !). A new pape...

Letter: Signs of the times

Lynn Krogseng’s recent letter made a good case for ranked choice voting in Washington (“Ready for ranked choice voting,” Our Readers’ Views, Aug. 8).

Former state rep tops ranked-choice slugfest as Alaska advances nominees for governor

Seventeen tickets competed in Alaska's nonpartisan primary to succeed term-limited Republican Gov. Michael Dunleavy in the November general election.

Voters are sick of the 2-party system. A new poll shows they're open to big changes

A new poll shows support for moving the U.S. toward proportional representation, a system that elects multiple representatives in a single district in rough proportion to a party's...