Opinion

Ranked choice voting outperforms the winner-take-all system used to elect nearly every US politician

(THE CONVERSATION) 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” ...
NBC Connecticut

What is the Electoral College and how does the US use it to elect presidents?

Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 because of the Electoral College. So did George W. Bush in 2000. The Electoral College is the unique American system of electing presidents. It is different ...
NPR

The voting system we use can determine the election winner. Here's how

Ahead of Election Day tomorrow, millions of ballots are being cast in statewide, local and special elections. So, today, we're revisiting an episode asking: What would happen if the rules of our ...
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Constitutional Court Rules Early Voting Does Not Infringe Electoral Rights

The Constitutional Court has issued its first ruling that the early voting system does not infringe on voters’ electoral rights. The court announced on the 26th that it unanimously dismissed a ...
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What does the sale of Dominion Voting Systems mean? For now, not much.

Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for our free weekly newsletter to get the latest. The sale of Dominion Voting ...
The Advocate

Louisiana begins testing new voting systems as it tries to replace decades-old machines

For more than three decades, Louisianans have pushed buttons on the same voting machines when casting ballots for everything from local school board members to president of the United States. But ...