Ahead of DC’s primary election on June 16, candidates and grassroots organizations are rushing to educate voters on DC’s new ranked choice voting system. Voters overwhelmingly approved Initiative 83 ...

Top choice: Having candidates to vote for rather than against. Choice #2: Having more candidates to choose among. Choice #3: Being able to vote for more than one candidate, in order of preference.

Nine candidates for governor debate at an Augusta event hosted by the Maine Primary Care Association on March 18. Credit: Benjamin Kail / BDN Our political journalists are based in the Maine State ...

Mainers decided to begin using ranked-choice voting in elections for the state Legislature, governor and federal offices all the way back in November of 2016 — the first state in the nation to do so.

David Jones led reporters through a sample ballot at the State House Monday — the latest instance of a candidate in Maine's ...

If you want more civility in the governor's race, there may be a solution. If you want to make sure the top two vote-getters are from different parties, there may be a solution. It's called the ...

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As the city contends with a $50 million budget shortfall, San Jose is once again proposing ranked choice voting – but only to fill a vacancy if a City Councilmember or mayor lea ...

Civic engagement leaders in Washington call on the state to adopt rank choice voting as a way to secure voting rights against changes to the federal Voting Rights Act. Last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ...

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 ...

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