ranked choice voting

Senator Lisa Murkowski's staff indicated that she supported the new voting system that was created with her reelection in mind. Ranked choice voting enables voters to choose multiple candidates on the ballot and rank them in order of preference, and the losers' votes will be reallocated.

-by Sam Husseini,Founder, Vote Pact VotePact is a voting strategy that advocates that people vote for their actual preferences by pairing up with someone on the other side of the Democratic-Republican divide. So people can strategically vote for the candidates they most like without fear of helping those they most fear.

PLEASE SHARE THIS so that family, friends, and colleagues can consider making their votes count as much as possible in this year of pandemics and protests, peril and possibility. To say we do not all agree on how to vote this year is an understatement! The following process may help maximize the power of our […]

Winning smileAlthough Maine’s largely rural second congressional district voted for Obama both times he ran, in 2016 it was anything but Hillary country. First Bernie wiped her out in the state caucuses 64.3% to 35.3%. And in the 2nd it was even worse for her. Bernie took every county, Oxford with over 70%.

Click to enlargeby Gaius PubliusIn England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people, the property of landed proprietors would be insecure.—James Madison, on why a Senate is needed to counterbalance the majoritarian HouseMinority rule occurs in a political system when a small group of citizens is able to force its will on the large group of which it is a part.