A Better Ranked Choice Voting Act
Congressmen Don Beyer (VA) and Jamie Raskin (MD) and Senator Peter Welch (VT) have recently introduced a Ranked Choice Voting Act to bring ranked voting… Read More »A Better Ranked Choice Voting Act
Mitigating backlash to election reform
Dr. Emily Campbell has published an analysis of Alaska’s implementation of ranked choice voting in the 2022 House Special Election. That article, published in the… Read More »Mitigating backlash to election reform
BTR-IRV: A voting system everyone can live with
Many people have figured out that the plurality or “first-past-the-post” voting system used in much of the U.S. causes political dysfunction and polarization. It limits… Read More »BTR-IRV: A voting system everyone can live with
On Precinct Summability
The post investigates three questions: What is precinct summability? Is it important? And how much should one worry about it being a property of a… Read More »On Precinct Summability
Dasgupta and Maskin on “Elections and Strategic Voting”
No voting system is perfect. Each makes different tradeoffs between various properties. Given the wide range of possible voting systems, it can be fruitful to… Read More »Dasgupta and Maskin on “Elections and Strategic Voting”
Movie review: Majority Rules (2024)
Are you tired of negative political attacks flooding the airwaves every election season? Are you fed up with political polarization and gridlock in Washington? Do… Read More »Movie review: Majority Rules (2024)
Voting methods and the center squeeze in the Alaska 2022 special election
No electoral voting method is perfect. The various methods of casting and counting ballots make different tradeoffs in terms of the simplicity or complexity of… Read More »Voting methods and the center squeeze in the Alaska 2022 special election
What Decisive Mandate?
In just the first two weeks, the second Trump administration has implemented drastic and far-reaching changes in the US. The Trump Administration has justified their… Read More »What Decisive Mandate?
Two Major Parties are not on Team “overhaul the incentives”
In April 2024, Andrew Yang gave a TED Talk entitled “Why US politics is broken — and how to fix it” in which he diagnoses… Read More »Two Major Parties are not on Team “overhaul the incentives”
Paige Saunders: How The Two Parties Crush Competition
Canadian activist Paige Saunders has a new video about Ranked Choice Voting entitled How the Two Parties Crush Competition (31 min). The video is a… Read More »Paige Saunders: How The Two Parties Crush Competition