The U.S. Constitution is mute as to what voting method should be employed. The simplest, known as "plurality," has historically been the default, and still dominates as the voting method for U.S ...
The single member plurality system used in all Canadian federal and provincial elections has many strengths but also reveals serious weaknesses in producing legislatures that reflect the choice of ...
In a rigorous review of RCV’s effects, New America’s Lee Drutman and Maresa Strano noted that “most of the studies in this series found RCV to be either a comparable or modestly better alternative” to ...
also known as instant-runoff voting, allows voters to rank multiple candidates in numerical order of preference rather than just choosing one (as they would in the more common plurality voting ...
As you may recall, the 2020 election was conducted in the middle of a pandemic. It dramatically changed how people voted: That was the first election in modern American history where a plurality of ...