Every fall, we publish our Best of Dallas issue, the Observer’s biggest print edition of the year. In those pages, we ...

Santa Clara County’s special assessor race this year has cost the county tens of millions of dollars. A county advisory board ...

"Ranked choice voting can save money for local governments and for candidates by eliminating the need for primary elections," ...

The discussion about ranked choice voting for Illinois has gone quiet in the last year and a half, and you’d be forgiven for ...

Montgomery County’s delegation to the Maryland General Assembly is hoping 2026 will be the year a bill on ranked choice ...

Rank MI Vote, the grassroots organization pushing for a ballot initiative to establish ranked choice voting in Michigan, has ...

A campaign for a 2026 ballot measure to overhaul Michigan elections by allowing voters to rank their preferred candidate in order of preference has halted its signature collection efforts. "Rank MI ...

Ranked choice voting is coming to D.C. — whether these two council members like it or not. At-Large Council member Anita Bonds and Council member Wendell Felder, of Ward 7, argued for an emergency ...

The white, rich men, some of them were young, who composed the Constitution seemed to feel that they could form a congenial body politic from which members would occasionally be chosen to serve as ...

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose commented in a recent op-ed about what he sees as a problem with the party makeup of the governing councils of Ohio’s eight largest metropolitan cities: each ...

D.C. voters will have more of a say in who gets elected to office come June 2026. That month's primary is the first time ranked choice voting will be in place, after the D.C. Council cleared the way ...

Aldona Martinka carries her 2-month-old daughter while voting at Minneapolis Elections and Voter Services ahead of Election Day 2025 in Minneapolis. Credit: Ellen ...