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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wearing a superhero costume, actor and filmmaker DezBaa’ emerged from the voting booth Friday afternoon after casting a ballot in ...

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, ...

Five years after ranked-choice voting was defeated on the state-wide ballot, the Massachusetts legislature is considering a bill that would make it easier for towns and cities in the state to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Democratic activists are looking to overhaul the party’s presidential primary process with ranked-choice voting. Proponents of the idea have privately met with Democratic National Committee Chair Ken ...

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 ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – For the fourth time, Albuquerque city councilors are debating whether municipal elections should ...

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 ...