Every fall, we publish our Best of Dallas issue, the Observer’s biggest print edition of the year. In those pages, we ...

Falls Church will be able to hold ranked-choice City Council elections as early as 2027, if current Council members want to ...

Santa Clara County’s special assessor race this year has cost the county tens of millions of dollars. A county advisory board ...

"Ranked choice voting can save money for local governments and for candidates by eliminating the need for primary elections," ...

A campaign for a 2026 ballot measure to overhaul Michigan elections by allowing voters to rank their preferred candidate in order of preference has halted its signature collection efforts. "Rank MI ...

Currently, towns and cities that want to implement ranked choice voting must first pass a home rule petition and then have it approved by the state legislature. MA bill would allow towns to implement ...

Ranked choice voting is coming to D.C. — whether these two council members like it or not. At-Large Council member Anita Bonds and Council member Wendell Felder, of Ward 7, argued for an emergency ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – As Albuquerque voters prepare to return to the polls for another election, questions about turnout and the voting process take center stage. Tim Krebs, a University of New Mexico ...

The white, rich men, some of them were young, who composed the Constitution seemed to feel that they could form a congenial body politic from which members would occasionally be chosen to serve as ...

D.C. voters will have more of a say in who gets elected to office come June 2026. That month's primary is the first time ranked choice voting will be in place, after the D.C. Council cleared the way ...

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LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Rank MI Vote, the ranked choice voting petition drive, has paused its effort to get the measure on the ballot. Pat Zabawa, executive director of Rank MI Vote, sent an email to ...