Voting Methods

To understand money's pernicious role, don’t think of candidates receiving briefcases of bribes. Think of the "Pyramid of Money."

While proposals from two commissioners to alter the new form of government approved by voters last year were premature, Portlanders should recognize that building a better government may take adjustments and revisions to the original ballot measure, the editorial board writes.

Portland City Council members will consider next week whether to place three separate measures on a November ballot. Each of the proposals, discussed Tuesday at a work session, would alter voter-approved changes to the city’s form of government.

The move brings the Northern Virginia suburb’s experiment with the increasingly popular voting system to a halt for now.

Supporters of an initiative to create nonpartisan open primaries and establish ranked-choice voting announced Monday they intend to sue Attorney General Raúl Labrador over his ballot titles for the initiative.

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.

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This month, petitioners will begin collecting signatures to overhaul election rules in the city of Eugene. The initiative would allow voters to rate multiple candidates instead of choosing just one.

Efforts to change Oregon’s voting system are on the move in the state Legislature and among citizen groups.

A bill asking voters to approve the system is among those stalled by a Republican walkout in the Senate.

A last-minute bipartisan effort to update Alaska’s election laws does not include new campaign contribution limits, nor does it make changes to the state’s open primaries and ranked choice voting system.

Idahoans for Open Primaries will attempt to qualify a ballot initiative for the November 2024...

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

The proposal is among seven changes to the county charter that the volunteer charter review commission will put before voters this fall.

The Portland Charter Commission aims to bring city in line with how other major U.S. cities do local governance.

Multnomah Circuit Court Judge Stephen Bushong disclosed the self-imposed deadline Thursday during a hearing on a lawsuit filed by the Portland Business Alliance.

The leader who brought the suit, James Posey, failed to notify the city’s elections officer in writing that he’d filed a court petition seeking the rewording, as required by law.

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 […]

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.

It’s been nearly five months since Portland voters approved substantial changes to the city’s government. With a long list of critical tasks to complete by next fall, it begs the question: Can they get it all accomplished in time? Here's what's happened so far.

RCV is on the ballot in a record 10 locations; and being used for elections in 12 other locations

“Sadly, City Club’s partisan email demonstrates that ideological advocacy has become more important than a debate on the merits."