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By Peter Cameron, THE BADGER PROJECT When Alaska ran its elections in 2022, it used a totally new system to vote. Voters had much more choice than the two

In Final Five Voting, candidates are not incentivized to waste resources attacking members of their own party

US Sen. Lisa Murkowski says nonpartisan primaries and ranked choice voting are a good thing for Alaska elections and should be considered in other states.

Opinion: Its time to get rid of party primaries CNN 3/12/2021 Opinion by Katherine M. Gehl © Mario Tama/Getty Images North America/Getty Images Voters prepare their ballots in voting booths during early voting for the California presidential primary election at an L.A. County vote center on March 1, 2020. Congress just passed another enormously consequential piece of legislation -- the American Rescue Plan Act -- and, yet again, they did so along party lines. This time it w...

Eric M. Patashnik Is America’s Grand Experiment With Democracy at an End? Q&A with MPA Director, Eric M. Patashnik and Harvard Business School Professor, Katherine M. Gehl Democracies are supposed to respond to all of their citizens, yet our American political system – as it exists today – is broken: Our political two-party duopoly caters to highly ideological party primary voters and special interests; erects nearly insurmountable barriers to new competition from independents or third pa...