From antiquated voting machines to the Electoral College, which allows a candidate to win the popular vote and still lose the White House, instant runoff voting proponents see the system as a way to ...

Candidates are scurrying around again filing to run for local offices, a sure sign that another election season is about to poke us in the face with rhetoric, organizing, television ads, direct mail, ...

The June primary season is another reminder that South Carolina must end its most archaic election practice – the runoff. The state should employ instant runoff voting (IRV), (also called “ranked ...

Before diving into this lengthy memo summarizing seven years of research and data-mining (or in lieu of, if you don’t want to read all of it), consider these main points. Unlike our runoff system, ...

Yes, the cash-strapped, snafu-prone New York City Board of Elections held a $13 million runoff that turned out fewer than 200,000 voters. The election was a 20-point rout by City Councilwoman Letitia ...

Low turnout for the Georgia Public Service Commission primary has election officials worried about how much the Democratic runoff will cost their districts. Some officials want to change the system to ...

Albuquerque voters will return to the polls on Dec. 9 for a runoff election after no candidate for mayor or City Council districts 1 and 3 secured 50% of the votes last week, costing taxpayers between ...

FILE - Keisha Waites poses for a photo in Atlanta on Oct. 10, 2017. (Branden Camp/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File) ATLANTA (AP) — Miller County Election Supervisor Jerry Calhoun says he's ...

ATLANTA — Miller County Election Supervisor Jerry Calhoun says he's not sure anyone will vote in an upcoming Democratic primary runoff. After all, the southwest Georgia county only recorded one vote ...