With Ranked Choice Voting Coming to Washington State, It's Time to Coordinate Rollout
State legislators can support local jurisdictions with streamlined implementation guidelines.
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State legislators can support local jurisdictions with streamlined implementation guidelines.
Breaking It Down is GPPR’s new series focused on explaining emerging and endorsed solutions for various policy problems. In this first installment, I explain the process of ranked-choice voting and its credibility as a tool for electoral reform in the United States. For the first time, American voters will not be voting under a…
Our top two advance primary is doing a disservice to voters, especially in crowded races. With Seattle’s 2021 mayoral election looming and Mayor Jenny Durkan’s announcement she’s not running for reelection, the field could become quite crowded in the next few months. The 2017 election that also featured no incumbent. Durkan and Cary Moon ran in the general election, but before that we utilized a top two blanket primary to determine who would participate in that general election. In a rather crowded field, our system produced a result that advanced the winners of only 45.5% of the vote, ...