But ranked choice voting advocates also suffered a pretty serious shellacking on Election Day, though they’re managing to be much less fatalistic about it. “It was a false start down a pathway that people do not like,

The vast majority of elections in the US are guided by plurality rule: Each voter selects one candidate, and the person with the most votes wins. Critics say this system, while simple to grasp, means voters can’t fully express their views when more than two candidates are running for an office.

In a pivotal congressional race in Maine, the state's ranked choice voting system is being used this week to determine the winner, but that won't be the end of it. The currently trailing candidate has requested a full recount that won't begin until after more than 12,

The race for Maine's 2nd Congressional District has now officially gone to ranked choice voting. That tabulation process began in Augusta Tuesday afternoon.

Alaska and Maine already use ranked-choice voting, which supporters say could lead to more moderate politics. But it has been rejected in Colorado, Idaho, Nevada and Oregon.

A measure to implement top-four, all-candidate primaries and ranked-choice voting in the general election has failed in Colorado, Decision Desk HQ projects. Coloradans voted down the proposed change,

The entire proceeding is open to the public and is being livestreamed on the secretary of state department's YouTube page.

Incumbent Democratic Congressman Jared Golden declared victory last Wednesday, but the secretary of state says it's too close to call.