Louis Jacobson | July 2, 2020 KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — 2020 has been a banner year for ranked-choice voting. — Several Democratic primary and caucus contests used the system, which asks voters to rank their choice and forces winners to achieve majority support, albeit through votes from those who did not pick them … Continue reading The Rise of Ranked-Choice Voting
Author: Melissa Amarawardana
We can’t let Georgia’s election disaster happen again
Khalid Pitts | June 24, 2020 When Georgia’s recent election melted down — with six-hour lines, inoperable machines and too few paper ballots — the most affected locales had something in common: They were all majority-minority counties. Across Atlanta’s Fulton County and other predominantly black neighborhoods, voting precincts didn’t open on time, machines malfunctioned, and … Continue reading We can’t let Georgia’s election disaster happen again
Ranked Choice Voting: The solution to our presidential primary predicament
Beth Hladick, Unite America Policy Manager | June 9, 2020 The 2020 presidential primary will go down in history for many reasons, the most important being that a global pandemic interrupted American life, including our democratic processes. Though this unique primary season is nearing and end, familiar problems plagued this cycle, especially in Democratic primaries; … Continue reading Ranked Choice Voting: The solution to our presidential primary predicament
The Constitutional Justification for the Fair Representation Act
June 1, 2020 In this analysis, Pamela Keller makes the case for the constitutionality of the The Fair Representation Act (FRA, H.R. 4000). The FRA would require every state to elect Congressional representatives through a form of ranked choice voting known as the “single transferable vote”, use multi-winner rather than single-winner districts, and adopt independent redistricting commissions … Continue reading The Constitutional Justification for the Fair Representation Act
Uncompetitive and unrepresented: Voters locked out of representation
April 17, 2020 In this short analysis, we attempt to estimate the number of voters utterly locked out of representation: those who prefer one party but live in a district that is safe for the opposite party. We do so using the partisanship metric from Monopoly Politics along with estimates of eligible voter populations from the United … Continue reading Uncompetitive and unrepresented: Voters locked out of representation
Sen. Bernie Sanders, at New Hampshire town hall, endorses ranked choice voting
Adam Ginsburg | January 10, 2020 Ranked choice voting rang in the new year with a prominent endorsement: that of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. Sanders, at a December 28 Concord, NH town hall sponsored by Equal Citizens and Open Democracy Action, indicated his support for the method, saying ranked choice voting (RCV) “is something I … Continue reading Sen. Bernie Sanders, at New Hampshire town hall, endorses ranked choice voting
Ranked-choice voting could guarantee that a candidate is elected by a majority
Lawrence Lessig | December 12, 2019 In theory, in a democracy, the majority wins. In reality, in America’s democracy, that’s not always so. The winner of an election in most of America is not necessarily the person supported by a majority. The winner is the one who gets the most votes. Consider the recent Democratic … Continue reading Ranked-choice voting could guarantee that a candidate is elected by a majority