Amid a pivotal election year, Maine lawmakers are asking the state’s highest court whether it would be legal to expand ranked-choice voting. The majority of legislators in the ...

Longmont City Council spent Tuesday night’s study session discussing whether the city should consider adopting ranked choice voting for municipal elections, hearing a detailed presentation from ...

The Ohio House passed a bill that would ban ranked choice voting in the state. The legislation would also withhold state funding from cities that use the system for local elections. Ranked choice ...

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 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—Ohio has become the 19 th 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 ...

An election worker talks to voters at Arlington County's Wakefield High School precinct during the 2024 general election (staff photo by James Jarvis) More outreach to Latino, older and younger voters ...

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