COLUMBIA, S.C. — Columbia officials are discussing if they should change the voting system from a majority system, which requires candidates to get more than half of the vote to win an election. This ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly a year ago, Tybee residents gathered at the Tybee Island Guardhouse to hear information about the proposed change from a ...

Port Arthur residents again are asking the city council to consider a change from a majority-rules system to instead electing representatives based on a plurality of the votes. Hardner Williams of ...

Tybee Island residents are considering changing their voting system from a plurality system to a majority system. The potential change was prompted by conversations between Mayor Brian West and state ...

EPISD elections could still face runoffs for the foreseeable future, after trustees narrowly rejected a proposal to discuss switching to a plurality vote system. The EPISD board of trustees voted ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - The ranked choice voting (RCV) electoral system has received substantial attention in American politics recently and has been adopted by a significant number of jurisdictions to ...

There is no question that plurality voting (Alaska’s old voting system, which Ballot Measure 2 would reinstate) is simpler than the new ranked choice system we operate under now. Plurality voting is, ...

Tybee Island is considering a referendum to let residents vote on changing the city's election system. The proposed change would switch from a plurality system to a majority-win system for city ...

Tybee resident David Roberts, at one of the two community meetings held last week by the City of Tybee Island, spoke briefly about Occam’s razor, a philosophy that says that the simplest solution is ...