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City of Kalamazoo to vote on ranked choice voting

Kalamazoo residents will have the chance to decide whether they want ranked choice voting in future elections.

Portman said his new academic center at the University of Cincinnati will study the issue.

At least 10 cities in Utah will operate local races through ranked choice voting in November.

Currently in Texas, the candidate who receives the most votes wins, even if that is less than a majority.

A resolution seeking to allow Ranked Choice Voting for Kalamazoo’s mayoral and city commissioner elections was adopted Monday.

State law would have to change before those cities could actually use ranked-choice voting.

New bill calls for ranked-choice voting, represents opportunity to push extremism out of Wisconsin elections.

Ranked-choice voting is on the ballot for municipal elections in East Lansing, Kalamazoo, and Royal Oak.

Changing how Americans vote in two key ways is gaining favor with liberals and conservatives alike, and now Michigan is getting involved.

Critics say RCV is too confusing, but it’s been used in more than 40 cities and in two states without voter confusion for the past several decades.