But the two systems diverge when there is no majority winner. Plurality simply chooses the candidates with the most first-place votes, while ranked choice voting eliminates the person with the fewest ...

The conservative backlash against ranked choice voting grew to over one-third of U.S. states last week as Iowa became the 17th Republican-controlled legislature in less than four years to ban the ...

FARGO — The lone city in North Dakota to use an alternative voting system, Fargo was unique in being affected by a law legislators passed last month that banned approval and ranked-choice voting.

Though democracy's inherent goal is to give voters an outlet to exercise their civic duty, that is not the reality for millions of voters. For many, voting has become a challenge, with logistical ...

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" plurality voting ...

People frequently are forced to vote for someone other than their preference, keeping us in a two-party duopoly.

(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” ...