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 ...
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, ...
Three mathematics professors explain why ranked choice voting better represents the whims of voters — and why U.S. democracy is straining under its current system.
A voting method is the procedure at the heart of an election that specifies what information is to be gathered from voters, and how that collected information is to be utilized to determine 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 ...
(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” ...