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Jacob Jaffe, MIT Political Science PhD candidate, conducts novel field experiments to gather highly detailed information on local, state, and federal elections and analyzes this trove with advanced statistical techniques. He hopes to help understand and improve the voting system in the United States, and ultimately boost voter confidence.
Every year, U.S. political parties invest millions in data, staff and advertising for one goal: to win elections. Yet, they have a major issue that undermines all that work – vote-splitting, where similar candidates “steal” votes from one another, letting the candidate with little public support sweep in and win. Approval voting would fix that.
Is voting for more than one candidate the iteration our elections need? Seattle Approves, an "approval voting" advocacy group, thinks so.
SEATTLE (AP) — An initiative that would alter the way Seattle elects mayors, city attorneys and City Council members is headed toward the November ballot. Elections authorities said Wednesday the Initiative 134 campaign, run by a group called Seattle Approves, has secured enough qualifying signatures, The Seattle Times reported .
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM's home for opinion and news analysis. It was first published at The Conversation. As they head to the polls to cast a…