Resources
Civic Benefits of Ranked-choice Voting
A thorough and fully referenced white paper on the benefits of ranked-choice voting.
Politics in the Animal Kingdom by CGP Grey
A classic of series of five-minute videos. “First past the post” is the way we vote now. “The Alternative Vote” and “Single Transferable Vote” are names used for ranked-choice voting in other parts of the world.
First Past the Post:
The Worst Voting System
Ranked-choice Voting
in Single Winner Elections
Single Winner Districts:
Gerrymandering’s Origins and Methods
RCV and Multi-winner Districts:
The Solution to Gerrymandering
from RadioLab
We scrutinize one proposed tweak to the way we vote that could make politics in this country more representative, more moderate, and most shocking of all, more civil. Could this one surprisingly do-able mathematical fix really turn political campaigning from a rude bloodsport to a campfire singalong?
How Ranked-choice Voting Works
- MPR News – Instant Runoff Voting Explained [1:26 video]
Pending Federal Legislation
RCV in practice
- What really happened with instant runoff voting in Pierce County, WA
- Rankit.vote – A tool for creating and running Ranked Choice Polls
- OpaVote – Website for running ranked choice elections
Other Reforms—Proportional Representation
Op Eds and Articles
- Vote … And push for Ranked Choice Voting by Stacey Hendrickson from Auburn in The Seattle Times June 12, 2020
- Candidate gamesmanship demonstrates need for election reform by Trenton Miller in The Spokesman-Review May 26, 2020
- Ranked-choice makes more of our voices heard by Marc Miller in Kitsap May 7, 2020
- We need ranked-choice voting by Ken Dammand in HeraldNet March 15, 2020
- Millions of Democratic votes were lost in the primaries. Is this the fix? in The Guardian March 11, 2020
- Ranked-Choice Voting supported by Bellingham City Council by Stoney Bird in NW Citizen March 4, 2020