California's Top-Two Voting System Keeps Leaving Voters Without Options
Given only two candidates from the same party, millions just don't choose at all.
Given only two candidates from the same party, millions just don't choose at all.
Few will agree with Cambridge political scientist David Runciman's proposal to lower the voting age to 6. But standard reasons for rejecting the idea raise serious questions about many adult voters, too.
Bush lost because voters punished him for the recession of the early 1990s - an event he did not cause. This is just one example of a broader phenomenon of voters rewarding and punishing politicians for things they do not control.
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But not according Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
GOP Rep. Bruce Poliquin fails to get a majority vote. Jared Golden joins the House's new Democratic majority.
Also, are people putting on disguises so they can vote more than once?
Bruce Poliquin is currently ahead. But a new requirement that he get a majority vote could unseat him.
Plus: The FDA will ban flavored e-cigarette sales at most places, and Chris Christie is being floated as Jeff Sessions' replacement.
Meanwhile, Fargo citizens adopt a different way to choose winners of citywide races.
When it comes to predicting the outcome of an election, bettors are better.
Amendment 4 will reverse Florida's more than 100-year-old law disenfranchising felons, a vestige of the state's racist "Black Codes."
Values are important. But so is factual knowledge about public policy. In some ways, the significance of values actually makes the problem of voter ignorance more pressing, not less so.
It is not yet clear who will win. But widespread political ignorance already ensures many of us will be losers.
Banning ballot selfies to stop voter fraud is like "burning down the house to roast the pig" said the First Circuit Court of Appeals. But many states still do it.
We'll trust teenagers with decisions about how to run the country, but not how to run their own lives.
Instead, you can do something that will actually make the world a better place. Which is basically anything else.
Measure 1 would introduce "approval voting" to the city, meaning voters wouldn't have to abandon independent and third-party choices.
Launch of statewide ranked-choice voting will help us see who best earns the support of independents.
Outing survivors of sexual assault, warning that Democrats "will be lynching black folk again," and other stupid campaign-ad tricks.
The socialist candidate fails to grapple with why we have the Electoral College in the first place.
If Amendment 4 receives 60% of the vote in November, ex-felons would see the right to vote once again.
Father David Boase was led to believe that he was eligible to vote. His mistake caught up with him 12 years later.
Having a "one-punch" option to choose every candidate from a political party alters election results, changes politicians' behavior, and reinforces the advantage of the locally dominant party.
Last-minute Democrat-assisting reinstatement of "one-punch" balloting is struck down by the New Mexico Supreme Court
Critics have sued, saying the "bundled" initiative violates the First Amendment.
The libertarian Republican explains why New Mexico's voting change is "primarily a scheme to unfairly benefit the major party establishments."
Democratic secretary of state in heavily Democratic state unilaterally changes voting rule in a way that favors Democrats (and punishes Libertarians). Republicans say they'll sue.
Two 11-year-olds hacked into a replica of Florida's election website. Should we be alarmed?
The two major parties continue their sorting into democratic socialists on the left and Mercantilist nativists to the right.
Incarcerated prisoners are counted where they're jailed for representation purposes, even though they usually cannot vote.
State's experiment in a different style of voting to continue.
Kris Kobach suffers legal, factual, and professional humiliation at the hands of a federal judge, though his conspiratorial cause still lives on at the White House.
Katherine Mangu-Ward talks about politics, culture, and Reason's next 50 years.
Voting on the blockchain could end worries about voter fraud and election hacking.
Voters participate in first use of a candidate rating system for state races in the U.S.
Golden Gate City voters ranked their choices for top office. And now the outcome is getting a little messy.
Canadian columnist Marcus Gee has an excellent article on how political ignorance exacerbates the challenges of voting for a lesser evil. But the problem is in some ways even worse than he suggests. At the same time, there is much we can do to improve the quality of our decisions.
Economist Dambisa Moyo is right to worry about the dangers of political ignorance. But her proposed solution for the problem falls short.
He faces a reelection challenge from the left, with Cynthia Nixon running on criminal justice issues like pot legalization.
A higher non-response rate among illegal immigrants is a goal to be celebrated, not some minor potential side effect to be lamented, Kris Kobach, David Vitter, and other would-be gerrymanderers stress.
An obsession with election fraud leads to cruel punishments.
The Census Bureau's decision to ask about citizenship in its decennial survey for the first time since 1950 will lead to worse data, but better electoral results for Republicans.
Stanford political scientist Morris Fiorina says it's media and political elites who live in ideological bubbles, not regular Americans.
The state uses a panel of partisan officials with absolute discretion to determine who gets to vote again