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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A person votes at the Herbert C. Young Community Center in Cary, N.C. on Tuesday, March 5, 2024. (Kaitlin ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

A person votes at the Herbert C. Young Community Center in Cary, N.C. on Tuesday, March 5, 2024. Kaitlin McKeown [email protected] Cary voters will elect their local leaders a different way ...

Cary voters will elect their local leaders a different way after the Town Council voted Thursday night to use the same election method most North Carolina communities use. Since 2000, Cary has used ...