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Evanston voters decided overwhelmingly to replace the city’s “winner-take-all” voting system with ranked-choice voting Tuesday night.

The supporters argue that Question 3 would benefit Nevadan voters in the primaries who aren’t registered to a political party.

They contribute to a less contentious and more productive government, for one.

Flying under the radar this Election Day are cities, counties, and one state voting to accept rank choice voting (RCV).

Voters will be asked to vote on a Ranked Choice Voting referendum that could change the way they vote in future municipal elections.

Can’t decide on just one candidate from the 10 running to be the city’s next mayor after Libby Schaaf leaves office? This year, you can give a nod to half of them.

Ranked-choice voting, multi-member House districts and other surprisingly simple tinkers that could fix our democracy…

In January, the Alaska Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Ballot Measure 2, also referred to as “ranked choice voting”, which was voted into law in 2020.

The process will be used next year when Hawai’i has a special federal election or special election of vacant county council seat.

Research shows that our current voting system, developed over 250 years ago, has not evolved with social progress.