Confused by Portland’s ranked-choice City Council elections? Here’s how winners were decided
In each City Council district, candidates with the fewest votes were eliminated one by one until three winners emerged with more than 25% of the vote.
Portland’s 1st ranked-choice election reshaped races — but vote reallocation made little difference
The full consequences of the city’s new electoral system remain uncertain.
The Oregonian
Oregon voters are split on ranked choice voting initiative, while poised to reject rebate plan and accept constitutional changes
From October 16th-17th, Public Policy Polling asked 716 likely Oregon voters for their views …
Campaign to implement ranked-choice voting in Oregon brings in millions from out of state
The effort has received widespread support from Oregon groups, but has received most of its funding from national organizations.
Cash Pours Into the Campaign to Take Ranked Choice Voting Statewide
Like lawmakers themselves, Oregonians may not be ready for Measure 117’s ranked choice voting • Oregon Capital Chronicle
Oregonians might not be ready for supporting a new voting system that would apply to some elections but not others.
Oregon rural county clerks worry ranked choice voting would raise costs, undermine election trust • Oregon Capital Chronicle
Oregon voters will decide on a ranked choice voting measure that would change how votes are tallied for federal and many state offices.
How Portland elects its mayor is about to drastically change. Here are the promises — and pitfalls
The move adds Portland to a small but growing list of U.S. cities, states and other jurisdictions that have adopted a widely used form of single-winner ranked-choice voting.
Ranked-choice voting has challenged the status quo. Its popularity will be tested in November
Alaska’s new electoral system — with open primaries and ranked-choice voting — has been a model for voters in other states who are frustrated by political polarization and a sense that voters lack real choice at the ballot box.
Arlington reverses use of ranked-choice voting system for fall elections
The move brings the Northern Virginia suburb’s experiment with the increasingly popular voting system to a halt for now.
Ranked-choice voting could come to Oregon, if voters say yes in 2024
In November 2024, voters will decide whether to use ranked choice voting in races after January 1, 2028 for president, seats in Congress, governor, Oregon secretary of state and some others.
Should Oregon Adopt Ranked-Choice Voting?
Today on TAP: Not if the state’s progressives and Democrats hope to be winning elections
Oregon voters could decide on ranked-choice voting soon
A bill asking voters to approve the system is among those stalled by a Republican walkout in the Senate.
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Reformers Unveil Statewide Ranked-Choice Voting Initiative
Ranked choice voting, open primaries? New ballot initiative would bring both to Idaho
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho voters could soon decide whether to have open primary elections and whether to choose candidates in order of preference, through a burgeoning method called ranked choice
Two Great Election Reforms That Go Great Together | Washington Monthly
Ranked-choice voting brings numerous benefits and one downside: It requires voters to spend more time with the ballot. Vote by mail gives them that time.
Ranked choice voting’s Big Adventure on November 8
RCV is on the ballot in a record 10 locations; and being used for elections in 12 other locations
Is Oregon ripe for ranked choice voting? – Oregon Capital Chronicle
With three serious gubernatorial candidates on the ballot in November and the theoretical possibility of a new governor elected with 34% of the vote, Oregon might consider an election tool that recently got a lot of attention in Alaska and seems ripe for consideration here: ranked choice voting. The probability – at least, if polling […]