Instant Runoff Voting

The existence of strategic voting within a voting method is often viewed purely as a downside for that voting method. “Strategic” voters are often compared to “honest” voters, wrongly implying that strategic voting is necessarily dishonest — and also implying that strategy is bad since we all know that honesty…

One of the most popular arguments for instant runoff voting (IRV or single-winner Ranked Choice Voting) is that it guarantees a majority. It feels very intuitive, since all of the plurality elections that make us see the need for voting reform lack a majority winner. …

No amendment or circumvention of the Constitution is needed. The delegates to the 1787 Constitution Convention struggled to resolve the controversial issue of how to elect the executive head of the proposed new republic. …

When I was a kid there was a school a block from our house. I didn’t attend that school, it was a religious school. But at the end of the school day, those kids would leave, and we would come home and the neighborhood kids would gather at the St…

How Should We, The People, Tally Ranked Ballots? I’d like to thank Move to Amend for organizing a transformative People’s Movement Assembly to re-imagine the US constitution. Connecting with a creative, intelligent, and diverse group to ponder what comes next was positively inspiring. I was heartened to hear such broad support for using ranked ballots during the assembly…

India is the world’s largest democracy, which conducts biggest election every 5 years. With election being the corner stone of every democracy, we will look into our own election system and its drawbacks and alternative election systems present around the globe. What is first-past-the-post (FPTP)? India follows an election system…

It is a possibility of future elections — A country not as democratic as India, the US has two large opposition parties — Democrats and Republicans. With the choices being extremely filtered down, a lot of them out there are going to be thinking about their votes. This is important as the winner takes all, really — all…

1) Exactly four “Super-Tuesday” style election days, held successively one week apart. Given that many states are independently concluding it is in their best interest to move their primaries as far forward as possible, a pseudo-nationwide mega-Tuesday is inevitable if we don’t start implementing reforms like this ahead of time. For example, the first round of states would vote on the first Tuesday of March, the second group of states would vote on the second Tuesday of March, and so on.