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

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Maine’s highest court is considering whether it is constitutional to expand ranked choice voting to general elections for ...

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 ...

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, ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – For the fourth time, Albuquerque city councilors are debating whether municipal elections should be decided by ranked choice voting. The proposal would move the city away ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The decision, aligning with the court’s 2017 opinion, comes down to the difference between plurality and majority votes ...