Elections News Election 2024 Ranked Choice Voting

Ranked choice voting in DC moves forward — despite attempt to halt it

Ranked choice voting is coming to D.C. — whether these two council members like it or not. At-Large Council member Anita Bonds and Council member Wendell Felder, of Ward 7, argued for an emergency ... Read More

DC's June primary will use ranked choice voting, DC Council vote decides

June’s primary is now the first time ranked choice voting will be in place in Washington, D.C.’s local elections, after the D.C. Council cleared the way with a Tuesday vote. Read More

Ready for ranked-choice voting, DC.? It’s moving forward.

An effort to delay the implementation of ranked-choice voting until 2027 failed at the D.C. Council on Tuesday, and the new voting method is moving full steam ahead. Read More

Ranked-choice voting drive falls short, pauses effort for 2028

Rank MI Vote has paused its effort to get ranked choice voting on the ballot, while the House passed a bill to ban it in the state and the Senate Committee on Elections and Ethics is considering it. Read More

Ranked choice voting group pauses 2026 ballot measure efforts in Michigan, looks to future elections

Updated 2:32 p.m. Rank MI Vote, the grassroots organization pushing for a ballot initiative to establish ranked choice voting in Michigan, has paused its statewide efforts to get that measure on the ... Read More

Ranked Choice for Every Voter? New Bill Would Transform Every Congressional Election by 2030

As voters brace for what is expected to be a chaotic and divisive midterm election cycle, U.S. Representatives Jamie Raskin (Md.), Don Beyer (Va.), and U.S. Senator Peter Welch (Vt.) have ... Read More

Campaign to bring ranked choice voting to Michigan halted

A campaign for a 2026 ballot measure to overhaul Michigan elections by allowing voters to rank their preferred candidate in order of preference has halted its signature collection efforts. "Rank MI ... Read More

Ranked choice voting outperforms the winner-take-all system used to elect nearly every US politician

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ismar Volić, Wellesley College; Andy Schultz, Wellesley College, and David McCune, ... Read More

Michigan ranked choice voting campaign suspends 2026 ballot effort

House Speaker Matt Hall celebrated the news, calling ranked choice voting a "scheme to complicate and hijack our elections." ... Read More

Mainers should lead nation in election reform | Opinion

This partisan election process is doing great harm to all of us, including our parties. Now is the time for Maine to move away from it. Read More

Price tag of Albuquerque's runoff election reigniting ranked-choice voting debate

With early voting underway in the race to decide who will be Albuquerque's next mayor, the cost of the city’s runoff election is generating renewed scrutiny. Read More

Ranked choice voting outperforms the winner-take-all system used to elect nearly every US politician

(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” ... Read More