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Philly mayoral election struggles to pick popular winner
An “instant runoff” would have produced a majority winner in a single election; instead, the “plurality-wins-all” election delivers a weak winner’s…
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Rob Richie
Taxes, primaries and expulsions, oh my!
Winner-take-all-palooza: taxpayers' money wasted on runoffs and primaries, and politics turns toxic with expulsion of legislators in Tennessee. But what…
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Rob Richie
The 2024 blame game has already begun
Without ranked choice voting, a large field of presidential candidates could split the vote and spoil each other, frustrating voters as well as majority…
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Rob Richie
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Another shooting. Another crazy day in Winner-Take-All land
America’s winner-take-all elections bedevil common sense and ensure "minority rule" and a vast gap between public opinion and policy
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Steven Hill
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How Trump could win the GOP nomination--again
Like in 2016, the pathway to the nomination is clear due to the "winner take all" rules in most GOP states; RCV would ensure a true majority of GOP…
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Steven Hill
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What political leaders should learn from New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern
By Jean-Pierre Charbonneau, President of the Mouvement Démocratie Nouvelle in Quebec
Can CA’s top-two primary handle the race for Feinstein’s Senate seat? Don’t count on it
Ranked choice voting would liberate voters to select their favorite candidates without fear of spoilers and split votes causing the wrong candidate to…
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Steven Hill
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