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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Currently, towns and cities that want to implement ranked choice voting must first pass a home rule petition and then have it approved by the state legislature. MA bill would allow towns to implement ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "I Voted" stickers sit on a table on Election Day 2020. Photo: Phil Roeder / Flickr / CC BY 2.0 (The Center Square) — An upstate ...

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 ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – As Albuquerque voters prepare to return to the polls for another election, questions about turnout and the voting process take center stage. Tim Krebs, a University of New Mexico ...

Long Beach residents may be able to decide on whether to implement a new way of voting as soon as the November general election, after two city commissions recently heard a proposal about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Voting booths. (Stock photo by Henry Redman/States Newsroom.) Ohio House lawmakers have approved a measure aimed at banning ranked ...

While Ohio lawmakers race to outlaw ranked choice voting before any municipalities adopt it, a grassroots movement is quietly building a strategy that bypasses the legislature entirely and goes ...

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 ...

“Why are politicians so opposed to ranked choice voting? Might it be that they’re all trying to claw onto their jobs and don’t really care about the best way to bubble up politicians?” That’s the ...