On November 3, Alaskans went to the polls in critical ranked choice voting elections for Congress, governor, and state legislature.
Justice Department seeks to isolate Alaska ballots as criminal probe underway over Senate candidate
The dueling developments came days before Tuesday's ranked choice general election, in a race headlined by two-term Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan and Democratic former U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola. The race is among a handful nationwide expected to determine control of the Senate.
Opinion | Give ranked voting a shot. Our democracy would benefit.
Ranked-choice voting empowers the majority by allowing voters to order their choices.
An Examination of Ranked Choice Voting in the United States, 2004-2022
From the perspective of social choice theory, ranked-choice voting (RCV) is known to have many flaws. RCV can fail to elect a Condorcet winner and is susceptible to monotonicity paradoxes and the spoiler effect, for example. We use a database of 182 American ranked-choice elections for political office from the years 2004-2022 to investigate empirically how frequently RCV's deficiencies manifest in practice. Our general finding is that RCV's weaknesses are rarely observed in real-world elections, with the exception that ballot exhaustion frequently causes majoritarian failures.
How Approval Voting and Ranked Choice Voting Are Different | Center for Election Science
How Approval Voting and Ranked Choice Voting Are Different
America's Decision 2026 | civicAPI
Live results for the 2026 United States elections, state by state.
Alaska's Two Dans, Four Days Before the Vote: What the Justice Department Pleads, What It Borrows From the New York Times, and What a Court Has to Decide by Monday
Written Saturday 2026-10-31, about 15:00 UTC. Filings are read from the CourtListener docket for United States v. State of Alaska, No. 3:26-cv-00376-SLG (D....
Is it time to think beyond Ranked Choice Voting?
We love being able to show our preferences. We want to vote our conscience. But is RCV really the best option?
FiftyPlusOne - Latest Political Polls and Averages
A comprehensive list of polls and polling averages for elections and politician approval.
FiftyPlusOne - Latest Political Polls and Averages
A comprehensive list of polls and polling averages for elections and politician approval.
Georgia Secretary of State Results 2026
See live election results from the 2026 Georgia secretary of state midterm race as voters hit the polls.
New York City cast vote record: An initial analysis of the 2025 Democratic mayoral primary - FairVote
This post explores the New York City cast vote record released July 24 – showing how voters used their rankings in the primary.
We polled Kansas. Democrats wanted to talk. Republicans, not so much.
The Post is publishing results of its Kansas Senate poll in the interest of transparency and to highlight the challenges the poll faced.
How Democrats Swept Texas in the 2026 Elections: See Which G.O.P. Counties Flipped From 2024
Every county in Texas shifted left, voting more Democratic than two years ago when President Trump was on the ballot.
New YouGov/Economist poll out this AM has Democrats up 11 points on the House vote among likely voters. This is with named candidates, not the usual "generic ballot," which in my testing with CES data is typically more accurate in forecasting outcomes d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabReport_SlcWd…
