Former FairVote New Mexico director Maria Perez talks about efforts to implement ranked choice voting in Santa Fe in a whirlwind information campaign just a few weeks before its debut RCV election. Now with Common Cause, Perez has continued to
Utah Rep. Marc Roberts and former Rep. Rebecca Chavez-Houck talk about their bipartisan bill to bring ranked choice voting to Utah cities.For more about efforts to spread RCV in Utah, visit utahrcv.com.
The almighty gerrymander is back before the Supreme Court in a pair of cases in Maryland and North Carolina. Kathay Feng, national redistricting director of Common Cause, explains the significance of the SCOTUS weigh-in on the future of fair ma
Trouble lies ahead for for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, with vote-splitting, 'spoilers' and non-majority outcomes made even more likely with every new candidate who enters the field. Ranked choice voting offers a solution to pro
FairVote Senior Fellow David Daley is one of the country's foremost authorities on gerrymandering. He is the author of "Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count" and his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Washington Post, Slate
Yascha Mounk is a lecturer on Government at Harvard University, a senior fellow in the Political Reform program at New America and executive director at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. He is also a contributor to Slate.
John Brautigam, council and senior policy director for the League of Women Voters of Maine, talks about the state's first statewide use of ranked choice voting. Maine is the first state in the Union to use RCV to select statewide offices like g
For this episode of the “Voices and Choices” podcast, I spoke with E.J. Dionne, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and columnist for The Washington Post. His latest book (co-written with Norm Ornstein and Thomas Mann) is “One Nation, Af
Steven Kull is a political psychologist and is director of the University of Maryland's Program for Public Consultation. For two decades, he has conducted in-depth studies of public opinion on public policy issues, in the United States and arou