Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A person votes at the Herbert C. Young Community Center in Cary, N.C. on Tuesday, March 5, 2024. Cary voters will elect their ...

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" plurality voting ...

There is no question that plurality voting (Alaska’s old voting system, which Ballot Measure 2 would reinstate) is simpler than the new ranked choice system we operate under now. Plurality voting is, ...

After low turnout in Saturday's City Council runoff election, some are calling for Port Arthur to consider a plurality voting ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Columbia officials are discussing if they should change the voting system from a majority system, which requires candidates to get more than half of the vote to win an election. This ...

More often than not, I tend to look left when everyone else is looking right.That’s not to say I ignore what’s generating buzz—I pay attention. But experience has taught me that there’s often ...

Tybee Island residents are considering changing their voting system from a plurality system to a majority system. The potential change was prompted by conversations between Mayor Brian West and state ...

In DC’s first ranked choice election, tens of thousands of voters stayed in the fight after their first choice fell short—something the old plurality system would have treated as a dead end.

Cary voters will elect their local leaders a different way after the Town Council voted Thursday night to use the same election method most North Carolina communities use. Since 2000, Cary has used ...

A person votes at the Herbert C. Young Community Center in Cary, N.C. on Tuesday, March 5, 2024. Kaitlin McKeown kmckeown@newsobserver.com Cary voters will elect their local leaders a different way ...