In a unanimous opinion, the justices said Maine's constitution makes clear that the first candidate to achieve a "plurality" ...

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, ...

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 ...

Fifteen candidates. One choice. One nominee. That was the contorted shape of democracy in the Democratic primary election for Illinois’ 9th Congressional District on March 17. I’m the Democratic ...

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 ...

The nonprofit group Ranked Choice Voting for Longmont, co-founded by University of Colorado Boulder student Dillon Rankin and former Longmont City Council at-large candidate John Lembke, held its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 25—Ranked choice voting is now set to be officially banned at the state and local levels after the Ohio House on Wednesday ...

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 ...

Fewer than 490 votes separate Analilia Mejia and Tom Malinowski in an absolute nailbiter of a primary to become the Democratic nominee in New Jersey’s 11th congressional district. Mejia holds a ...

When the first round of ballots were counted on Election Night, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter outpaced Kaohly Her by 1,727 votes — or just over 2.5% of all votes cast in the mayor’s race. Carter’s 41% ...