Analysis from Alaska’s RCV elections in November 2022
The Alaska Board of Elections has released full data from their November 2022 elections in the form of a “cast vote record,” or a digital record of how each voter used the rankings on their ballots....
View ArticleA new Congress, a new case for ranked choice voting and the Fair...
As both our colleague Ryan Suto and billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban have pointed out, last week’s 15-round contest for House Speaker offered a perfect advertisement for ranked choice voting (RCV)...
View ArticleTwo years later, the U.S. is still an outlier among democracies
When the Biden Administration held its first “Summit for Democracy” in 2021, we wrote about how the United States was an outlier among its fellow democracies due to our broken “winner-take-all”...
View ArticleAlaska’s new election system and Alaska Natives
Two articles published last month discuss how Alaska indigenous communities are engaging with – and benefiting from – the state’s new election system, which includes ranked choice voting (RCV). In an...
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New ranked choice poll examines the Republican presidential field after first...
This post was updated on September 5. WPA Intelligence and FairVote fielded a national poll of 800 likely Republican presidential primary voters following the first Republican presidential debate on...
View ArticleNew ranked choice poll examines the Republican presidential field after...
WPA Intelligence and FairVote fielded a national poll of 801 likely Republican presidential primary voters on September 28-30, following the second Republican presidential debate. The poll also...
View ArticleFairVote’s Ranked Choice Polling of GOP Presidential Primary Makes Waves
On October 6, FairVote and WPA Intelligence released the results of a national ranked choice poll of Republican presidential primary voters, gauging their views of 13 candidates after the second...
View ArticleMike Pence dropped out. Ranked choice polling can tell us where his voters...
Mike Pence announced over the weekend that he is suspending his campaign for president. Pence’s move comes on the heels of withdrawals from Will Hurd, Larry Elder, and Francis Suarez. The natural...
View ArticleNew Unite America report shows the benefits of RCV in Alaska
Last week, Unite America released a new report on “Alaska’s Election Model.” It thoroughly examines Alaska’s historic use of ranked choice voting (RCV) in the 2022 elections, showing that RCV...
View ArticleTim Scott is out, ranked choice polling is in
Tim Scott announced over the weekend that he is dropping out of the race for president. In an ever-changing field of candidates, ranked choice polling helps us make sense of the likely impacts of...
View ArticleChris Christie departure helps Nikki Haley, ranked polling shows
Chris Christie announced yesterday that he is dropping out of the race for president. With caucuses and primaries beginning this month, ranked choice polling helps us predict the likely impacts in...
View ArticleThe Iowa Republican caucus should use ranked choice voting
When Iowa Republicans caucus on January 15, they will have a much smaller field of candidates to choose from than they did just a few months ago. The realities of single-choice elections have...
View ArticleAlaska Natives are embracing ranked choice voting
On Tuesday, FairVote published a new report diving into how and why communities of color benefit from ranked choice voting (RCV). This edition features a new case study on how Alaska Natives engaged...
View ArticleNon-majority rule here and abroad
FairVote Senior Advisor Rob Richie posted this thread on X/Twitter on MLK Day, highlighting candidates who have won without a majority in critical elections, from city halls to the presidency and...
View ArticleNew Hampshire primary needs RCV to prevent 5,300 wasted votes
Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Chris Christie have all dropped out of the presidential race. But their names still appeared on New Hampshire ballots yesterday. At least 5,300 voters in the...
View ArticleVirgin Islands Republican caucus leads the way with RCV
On Thursday, the third-in-the-nation Virgin Islands Republican presidential caucus will use ranked choice voting (RCV). The contest is putting eyes across the nation on RCV! Read on for more about:...
View ArticleAnalysis of Virgin Islands presidential primary results
Today, the Republican Party in the Virgin Islands became the first Republican state or territorial party to use ranked choice voting (RCV) in their presidential primary. The third-in-the-nation...
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What to expect from Super Tuesday: RCV, zombies, runoffs, and playing dirty
March 5 is Super Tuesday, the biggest day in this year’s primary calendar. And even in an election cycle when both major party’s presidential nominees are nearly effectively decided, there is a lot to...
View Article221,000 Republicans cast “zombie votes” in the Super Tuesday primaries....
Yesterday, voters across 17 states cast ballots in presidential primaries or caucuses for Super Tuesday. A whopping 221,528 Republican voters voted for candidates who already dropped out of the race,...
View ArticleCalifornia Senate election shows limits of top-two voting
In the California Senate election this November, long-time Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff is likely to glide to victory over Steve Garvey, a Republican and former Los Angeles Dodgers infielder. Schiff...
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