In American politics, the people are supposed to choose their leaders. However, in state after state, it’s increasingly the opposite: politicians choose their voters. The evidence of democratic ...
Last week, the town of Newburgh — not to be confused with the city of Newburgh — agreed to change how it elects the Town Council, and adopted a proportional rank choice voting system. The change comes ...
Utahans looking at the multiple rainbow colored redistricting maps currently before Judge Dianna Gibson in the litigation challenging the shapes of Utah’s four U. S. congressional districts could ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jennifer Lynn McCoy, Georgia State University (THE CONVERSATION) In the face of ...
PR is the principle that a party’s share of votes should match its share of legislative seats. Systems built on that principle treat votes for candidates as votes for their parties, too. Thus, it ...
In Spring 2025, Change Party received almost one-third of the votes for the eight senators from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. They got, however, zero seats. With only around 64% of the ...
In American politics, the people are supposed to choose their leaders. However, in state after state, it’s increasingly the opposite: politicians choose their voters. The evidence of democratic ...