Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ranked choice voting makes use of more information from the voters than plurality voting. stefanamer/Getty Images American ...

It's a new year, and we have a new Cincinnati City Council. Well, not really new − more like a retread with one new face. The part that we need to remember is that it was a vigorous and, at some ...

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose commented in a recent op-ed about what he sees as a problem with the party makeup of the governing councils of Ohio’s eight largest metropolitan cities: each ...

Alaska’s new election system — with open primaries and ranked voting — has been a model for those in other states who are frustrated by political polarization and a sense that voters lack real choice ...

(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” ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ismar Volić, Wellesley College; Andy Schultz, Wellesley College, and David McCune, ...