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Ranked Choice Voting Likely Means Lower Turnout, More Errors
Jason McDaniel dives into the empirical literature on ranked choice voting.
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The False Promise of Instant Runoff Voting
Jason Sorens recommends approval voting and finds fault with instant runoffs.
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Approval Voting: Works Great, Less Complicated
Thomas L. Knapp says that approval voting has one great virtue: It's simple.
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Hacking America’s Antiquated Elections
Rob Richie of FairVote explains why he thinks ranked choice voting is better than the system that most of us now use.
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(Almost) All Criminal Justice Politics is Local
Jonathan Blanks looks at where the reforms will have to start now: at the local level.
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Wrong on Crime
Marie Gottschalk doubts that Republicans were ever serious about doing the hard work that de-incarceration would require.