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 ...

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 ...

When 11 candidates split the vote in NJ's 11th district primary, the 'winner' will represent a district where 70% of voters ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ranked choice voting makes use of more information from the voters than plurality voting. stefanamer/Getty Images American ...

As Longmont settles into the aftermath of the City Council election, a familiar debate over voting methodology is gaining momentum. Former candidates and voting reform advocates say this year’s ...

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio — Cleveland Heights City Council received a detailed plan Monday for placing ranked-choice voting ...

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 ...

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 ...

A group seeking to repeal Alaska’s open primaries and ranked choice voting has gathered enough signatures to place the question on the November 2026 ballot, according to Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom.

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 ...

WINCHESTER - Could Ranked Choice Voting come to Winchester? Resident John Healey stopped by the most recent Select Board meeting (virtually, as the board met via Zoom due to the ...

American democracy is straining under countless pressures, many of them rooted in structural problems that go back to the nation’s founding. Chief among them is the “pick one” plurality voting system ...