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Voters in several states last week delivered a stinging rebuke to ranked choice voting, clouding the future of an idea that ...

It's been more than a week since Portland voters took part in the city's first ranked-choice election, and the results — at ...

By Matthew Gagnon This week, Maine is once again coming face to face with the foolishness of its decision to adopt ...

Maine’s ranked choice tabulation is taking place in public, narrated play-by-play by the state’s elections chief ...

A coalition of gun groups has filed a lawsuit claiming that Maine's new 72-hour waiting period for firearms purchases is ...

Full stop. The reason why we’re able to celebrate this indisputable fact is thanks to charter reform and ranked choice voting ...

Portlanders now know the probable winners of a dozen seats on the 2025 City Council. It’s a diverse group. The 12 include ...

The FOX 12 Investigates team discovered that as of the most recent tabulations, 21%, or about one-in-five Portlanders who cast a ballot, did not vote for any city council candidates. That equates to ...

Proportional ranked-choice voting in Portland, Ore. allowed the city to “get a diverse array of candidates elected from the ...

Keith Wilson, the owner and CEO of Portland, Oregon’s, Titan Freight, has won a surprise victory as that city’s mayor.

But ranked choice voting advocates also suffered a pretty serious shellacking on Election Day, though they’re managing to be ...