American democracy is straining under countless pressures, many of them rooted in structural problems that go back to the ...

OPINION When Mikie Sherrill becomes governor on January 20, the first item on her agenda should be to work with the ...

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 ...

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, ...

Seeking to reduce polarization and strengthen voter confidence, Representatives Christopher Rabb and John Inglis III are introducing ...

(NewsNation) — At the start of the year, less than a third of Americans were satisfied with the way democracy was working in the U.S., and several states will be considering changing their electoral ...

A person votes at the Herbert C. Young Community Center in Cary, N.C. on Tuesday, March 5, 2024. Cary voters will elect their local leaders a different way after the Town Council voted Thursday night ...

A coalition in Michigan is pushing for ranked-choice voting, aiming to collect 500,000 signatures by July 6 to qualify for ...

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 ...

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.

Ranked voting, also known as ranked-choice voting or preferential voting, is an electoral system in which voters rank candidates in order of preference. This system has gained traction around the ...