Ranked Choice Voting with Rob Richie - The Fulcrum

Top Stories

Ducks

The 12 worst House districts: Experts label gerrymandering's dirty dozen

Home>

        Video: Ranked-choice voting with Rob Richie
    
Top Stories

        Grassley steps up to Trump with new bill protecting inspectors general
    

        Florida top court ruling on felon voting is hardly the final word
    

        Rank Choice Voting with Rob Richie
    
www.youtube.com
By Our StaffDec 22, 2021
Our Staff
The Fulcrum staff.
 See More Writings by author 
Ranked choice voting (RCV) is a simple solution with a big impact. It promotes majority support, contributes to more civil and issue-oriented campaigns, gives voters more choices, and produces a more reflective democracy. Amidst widespread frustration with politics among both voters and elected officials, it’s no surprise that ranked choice voting is gaining momentum across the country as a win-win solution that strengthens our democracy. Rob Richie, president of FairVote, discusses ranked choice voting’s impact and possible future.
Latest news
Governance & Legislation
        Project 2025 would have 'catastrophic' impact on hurricane warnings
    
Raj Ghanekar
16h
Bridging & Common Ground
        Halloween, fear and democracy: Finding empathy amid the scary season
    
David L. Nevins
Kristina Becvar
17h
Media & Technology
        This election night, the media can better explain how results work
    
Kevin Johnson
Nick Penniman
17h
Governance & Legislation
        Immigration isn't a border issue – it's caused by U.S. interventions
    
Emily Yates-Doerr
17h

Read More
A sign guides people to an early voting location in Raleigh, N,C., on Oct. 24.

        Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images
    

        It’s Vote Early Day!
    
Bryce Bennett
Oct 29, 2024
Bennett is executive director of Vote Early Day, a nonpartisan effort promoting a civic holiday dedicated to empowering Americans to vote early.
It’s Vote Early Day! Today, thousands of nonprofits, businesses, campus groups, election leaders and other voting enthusiasts are hosting celebrations encouraging Americans to vote early in every corner of the country. 
Keep ReadingShow less
Recommended
Glossary
        Redistricting
    
David Meyers
09 May 2019
Governance & Legislation
        Covid consequence: Supreme Court will let you listen in live
    
Bill Theobald
13 April 2020
Governance & Legislation
        Ocasio-Cortez, Shalala lead finalists for democracy awards
    
Bill Theobald
02 April 2020
Electoral Reforms
        With FEC impotent, advocacy group asks court to enforce campaign law
    
Bill Theobald
04 March 2020
Pop Culture
        The Hotel California: “You can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave!"
    
David L. Nevins
15 February
Ethics & Leadership
        2020 election was 'Lost, not Stolen' from Trump – just ask Republicans
    
Steve Corbin
14 October
An Arizona vote-by-mail ballot from the 2020 election

        Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images
    

        Republicans target fine print of voting by mail in key states
    
Steven Rosenfeld
Oct 29, 2024
Rosenfeld is the editor and chief correspondent of Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
In the first installment of this two-part series, I focused on the many efforts that failed to roll back the popular vote-by-mail options to pre-pandemic levels and the GOP effort to disqualify more ballots. Today we focus on the states in the crosshairs.
The litigation targeting mailed-out ballots has evolved since the 2020 and 2022 general elections, when Trump-supporting Republicans lost many federal and statewide contests, and their allies took broad swipes at vote-by-mail programs. Take Arizona, for example, whose current mail voting regime has been in place since 1991, and where 80 percent of its statewide electorate cast mail ballots in 2020’s presidential election.
Keep ReadingShow less
Voting and CrossFit have a lot in common.

        Westend61/Getty Images
    

        CrossFit and voting: How to finally reach low-propensity voters
    
Spenser Mester
Oct 29, 2024
Spenser is a poll worker, elections nerd, civics consultant and CrossFit coach.
So it begins. Early voting in some format has begun in nearly every state, and both parties, along with an army of political action committees, nonprofits and boards of election, are now chasing the same white whale: how to turn out voters, especially low propensity ones. 
However, there’s an irony here: The masterminds behind these organizations are especially ineffective at reaching the 100 million Americans who are eligible to vote but choose not to. 
Keep ReadingShow less
blueringmedia

        Avoid the political hobgoblins
    
Amy Lockard
Oct 29, 2024
Lockard is an Iowa resident who regularly contributes to regional newspapers and periodicals. She is working on the second of a four-book fictional series based on Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice."
“Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” (Emerson)What exactly is a hobgoblin? In Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” the mischievous sprite Puck, who creates havoc in the forest, is a hobgoblin. Dobby, the interfering house elf in J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” series, is also a hobgoblin. 
Keep ReadingShow less
Load More