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House races during last year's midterm cycle continued to decrease in competitiveness, furthering an ongoing trend over at least the past decade, according to a new analysis. FairVote, a nonprofit ...

On the Tuesday afternoon of Illinois’ March primary, Rebecca Williams stood outside the Naperville Municipal Center as community members strolled in and out of the building — a polling place for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ranked choice voting, the controversial balloting method in which voters select candidates in the order of their preference, was ...

New York ranked 44 in the country for “Voter Voice,” according to the report which took five metrics into account for the ranking. FairVote said the report, which used Congressional voting statistics, ...

The adoption or rejection of ranked choice voting (RCV) has become a fiercely contested policy debate in recent years. Advocates for RCV—the most prominent of which is FairVote—tout the adoption of ...

On January 11, the Center for Election Confidence released a study of the effects of ranked choice voting (RCV). (The center, previously known as the Lawyers Democracy Fund, opposes RCV.) The ...

Your news feed likely is filled with hot takes and prophecies of what the future will hold following the presidential election, but don’t overlook pro-democracy reforms happening here in Illinois.

Despite the persistent wish-casting from anti-Trump Republicans, there's no mechanism by which the party could force underperforming presidential candidates to exit the primary. But what if there were ...