But the two systems diverge when there is no majority winner. Plurality simply chooses the candidates with the most first-place votes, while ranked choice voting eliminates the person with the fewest ...
A recent letter writer stated, “Trump was elected president of the United States by the majority people (sic).” Let’s look at that. A “majority” means more than half. When discussing votes, the common ...
Ranked choice voting outperforms the winner-take-all system used to elect nearly every US politician
(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” ...
Gookin 3,265; Loffman 2,674; McEvers 2,527; and Pulsifer 1,084. Democratic legitimacy rests on majority support. For most executive offices in Idaho, if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote ...
This year’s Nov. 4 general election left 53 municipal, county and legislative races across Georgia undecided, according to the nonpartisan website Branch.Vote. Voters must return to the polls Dec. 2 ...
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