The voting system in use can affect all of these dimensions of complexity. The following sections will discuss some of the effects of approval voting, and offer comparisons with plurality rule and ...
Nate Atkinson and Ezra Friedman have posted this paper on SSRN. Here’s the abstract: Should states retain plurality rule or adopt a different voting method? We study the class of sequential plurality ...
Maine Republicans are renewing a push to repeal the state's ranked choice voting law, arguing that the method of deciding ...
The Department of Justice has filed lawsuits against a Georgia and Tennessee county alleging that their election processes ...
Political polarization is one of the greatest threats to our system today, and replacing our current plurality voting with RCV will facilitate the emergence of third parties by eliminating wasted ...
First, election officials tally the votes for ... that voters have for candidates than is possible in our … plurality system,” says Charles Stewart, founding director of the Massachusetts ...
The county uses an at-large voting method, which usually means candidates are elected by a plurality of all voters in the jurisdiction. But according to the DOJ, the method means Black voters have ...