How Better Ballot Design and Voter Education Improved Oakland’s Ranked-Choice Voting Elections

“Oakland held a special election with RCV in April 2025, just five months after its November 2024 election with the higher-than-usual error rate. Due to improvements in ballot design and voter guidance, the special election ran smoothly and the overvote rate dropped to less than a quarter of the rate in 2024 with 99.6 percent of voters casting valid ballots.” 

Article begins on page 29 of the PDF report at https://electioncenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/JEARP-Volume-04-Issue-02.pdf.