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Ranked choice voting expansion in Maine sent to Gov. Mills
Proponents say a court case in Alaska casts doubt on a Maine Law Court advisory opinion that the voting method violates the Maine Constitution
https://www.pressherald.com/2025/06/18/ran

🚨 🚨 🚨 "An Initial Assessment of Proportional Ranked-Choice Voting in Portland, Oregon" - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=150163

Bram Cohen on algorithms for determining the winner in ranked-choice voting: More complicated than you might think.
https://bramcohen.com/p/variants-on-instant-runoff

Variants on Instant Runoff
A practical view

Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani have been locked in a tight contest.
By later tonight, voters are certain to know which candidate is in the lead,
but under the city’s ranked-choice voting system, a winner may not be clear until next week.

Mamdani Holds Lead Over Cuomo in Democratic Primary for NYC Mayor: Live Updates
Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assemblyman, built a significant advantage over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo thanks to a strong showing in Brooklyn and Manhattan. A winner might not be declared until ranked-choice ballots are tabulated next week.

Ranked choice voting (RCV)
is an increasingly popular electoral institution that has been posited by reformers and media outlets to produce transformative effects on electoral outcomes and representation.
This article finds no empirical support for the proposition that RCV changed fiscal outcomes or the ideological composition of city councils
— both on absolute terms and relative to mass opinion.
Furthermore, the roll-call based ideal points of legislators serving …