The Minneapolis and St. Paul 2025 municipal elections are here. Here’s how to vote, check your registration and see a sample ballot. Both cities employ ranked-choice voting, sometimes known as instant ...

On Tuesday, New York City residents cast their ballots for their favorite candidate in mayoral primary. They also chose their second, third, fourth and fifth favorites. That's because the country’s ...

An uncommon system of voting could be central to which party controls the U.S. House this fall — or even the presidency. In Maine and Alaska, voters in competitive congressional districts will elect a ...

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio – Ranked-choice voting – where voters rank multiple candidates on their ballot, instead of picking just one -- had a moment this summer, after political underdog Zohran Mandani ...

Ahead of DC’s primary election on June 16, candidates and grassroots organizations are rushing to educate voters on DC’s new ranked choice voting system. Voters overwhelmingly approved Initiative 83 ...

Wearing a superhero costume, actor and filmmaker DezBaa’ emerged from the voting booth Friday afternoon after casting a ballot in the crowded Santa Fe mayor’s race. She’d done her homework. She’d ...

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.

Nine candidates for governor debate at an Augusta event hosted by the Maine Primary Care Association on March 18. Credit: Benjamin Kail / BDN Our political journalists are based in the Maine State ...

The Ohio House passed a bill that would ban ranked choice voting in the state. The legislation would also withhold state funding from cities that use the system for local elections. Ranked choice ...

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 system ...