Ranked Choice Voting— A Bad Move for Boston

Ranked Choice Voting— A bad move for Boston

Paul Craney, Special to the ReporterBoston voters deserve a government that gets the basics right. Before the City of Boston embarks on an experiment that will fundamentally alter the city’s elections in a very complex manner, it should first prove it can effectively manage the straightforward, reliable system we already have. Right now, the Boston Elections Department is in state receivership. Why? Because it failed at core responsibilities lik…

Bring Ranked Choice Voting to Michigan

Ranked Choice Voting will enable more Michigan leaders to run for office, providing more choices by enabling more voices.

Ranked Choice Voting: Lessons in Democracy Reform from New York

In just a few weeks, on June 24, 2025, voters in New York City’s primary elections will use the ranked choice voting (RCV) method to select their parties’ nominees for the general elections later in the fall. This will mark the second time that the residents of America’s largest city will utilize this new system which was adopted in 2019. In a typical ranked choice voting scenario, when no candidate wins more than 50 percent of the votes, the le…