For those of us who actually vote, the process can be dispiriting. It often involves waiting in long lines on a weekday at some random schoolhouse or decommissioned train depot, just to cast a ballot ...

The 2026 primary election in Washington, D.C., is the first time the District will use ranked choice voting to decide the outcome. The transition from traditional “first-past-the-post” voting to ...

Election systems should be judged by one simple standard: Do they make it easier for voters to participate and have confidence that every vote counts equally? Ranked choice voting fails that test.

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.