Voting Methods

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.

The full consequences of the city’s new electoral system remain uncertain.

From October 16th-17th, Public Policy Polling asked 716 likely Oregon voters for their views …

The effort has received widespread support from Oregon groups, but has received most of its funding from national organizations.

Oregonians might not be ready for supporting a new voting system that would apply to some elections but not others.

Oregon voters will decide on a ranked choice voting measure that would change how votes are tallied for federal and many state offices.

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.

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.

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.

Today on TAP: Not if the state’s progressives and Democrats hope to be winning elections

Drutman thinks fusion will best usher in "party-centered reform" that the two-party system so badly needs -- and maybe even proportional representation

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

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.