There is no question that plurality voting (Alaska’s old voting system, which Ballot Measure 2 would reinstate) is simpler than the new ranked choice system we operate under now. Plurality voting is, ...

Democratic Attorney General Aaron Frey argues in a legal brief that a proposed workaround bill in the legislature offers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A person votes at the Herbert C. Young Community Center in Cary, N.C. on Tuesday, March 5, 2024. (Kaitlin ...

(THE CONVERSATION) American democracy is straining under countless pressures, many of them rooted in structural problems that go back to the nation’s founding. Chief among them is the “pick one” ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Columbia officials are discussing if they should change the voting system from a majority system, which requires candidates to get more than half of the vote to win an election. This ...

Attorney General Aaron Frey broke with state Democratic leaders last week when he filed a brief before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court opposing a proposed expansion of ranked-choice voting. The ...

It's Election Day in the United States. Across the nation, millions of ballots are being cast. But what would happen if the rules of our electoral... The voting system we use can determine the winner.

Tybee Island residents are considering changing their voting system from a plurality system to a majority system. The potential change was prompted by conversations between Mayor Brian West and state ...

A person votes at the Herbert C. Young Community Center in Cary, N.C. on Tuesday, March 5, 2024. Kaitlin McKeown [email protected] Cary voters will elect their local leaders a different way ...