The real story from the New York City mayoral primary isn't Zohran Mamdani's victory, but voters' response to a different way of voting, writes Ismar Volić director of the Institute for Mathematics ...

Yet would ranked-choice voting have served us well if it had been the standard throughout our history? Abraham Lincoln won the White House in 1860 with only 39.8% of the popular vote. Three ...

Ranked choice voting has a history in Ohio. In the 1900s, five Ohio cities used this method. Under the system, voters rank candidates in the order that they prefer.

More than 3.3 million voters in Maine and 17 cities, including Minneapolis and San Francisco, vote through ranked-choice voting, according to the nonprofit group Ranked Choice Voting Resource Center.

Zohran Mamdani officially claimed victory in NYC's Democratic mayoral primary, securing a record 565K votes and declaring a ...

Ranked-choice voting has challenged the status quo. ... Sondra Cosgrove, a history professor at the College of Southern Nevada who supports the ranked voting initiative in her state, ...

The Michigan Board of Canvassers approved language and 100-word summary for a proposed constitutional amendment that would bring ranked choice voting to the state. Rank MI Vote must collect 446,198 ...

Is ranked-choice voting a fad — like the pet rock or streaking — destined to fade into the fog of history? It appears that way, if election results from across the country are any indication.

Where is ranked-choice voting used in the US? As of April 2025, more than 45 cities — including New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis and Santa Fe, New Mexico — use the system in municipal races.

Ranked-choice voting has challenged the status quo. Its popularity will be tested in November Measures either to implement or ban ranked voting will be on the ballot in several states in November ...

Campaign buttons urging Alaskans to repeal ranked choice voting in Alaska sit on a picnic table at the home of Phil Izon, a backer of the initiative, in Wasilla, Alaska, on Tuesday, May 14, 2014 ...

Ranked-choice voting has challenged the status quo. ... Sondra Cosgrove, a history professor at the College of Southern Nevada who supports the ranked voting initiative in her state, ...