News & Updates

California’s top two primary system, while well-intentioned, is too easily manipulated.

Supporting Ranked Choice Voting for Sacramento starts with raising awareness so that everybody gets to know how it works and we can build support for a 2026 ballot measure.

A new EMC Research poll finds that 64% of likely 2024 voters in Santa Clara County support using ranked choice voting (RCV) in countywide and local elections. This represents significant growth in support since 54% of county voters voted for RCV in county elections by approving Measure F in 1998.

New Report Shows Evidence that Ranked Choice Voting Benefits Candidates and Voters of Color

"Sacramento, California has a voter turnout problem. Turnout in its primaries is much lower than in its general elections, and the primary electorate is less representative of Sacramento’s population – underrepresenting young voters and renters. Sacramento could join other California cities, and solve this problem by consolidating its elections into a single, high-turnout contest with ranked choice voting."

“Instead, California should give more options to voters by expanding the number of candidates that advance to the general election and determine the winner using an instant runoff, also known as ranked-choice voting.”

Our friends in Michigan - Kalamazoo, East Lansing, and Royal Oak - just shouted a resounding "HECK YEAH!" to RCV this past Tuesday.

County is now clearly authorized to upgrade to better, fairer elections

"I can’t write about San Francisco’s upcoming races without defending ranked choice voting (RCV). RCV is getting a lot of unfair criticism. I’d like to set the record straight." -- Randy Shaw, editor of BeyondChron

Ongoing effort by Cal RCV and partners pays off as AB 1227 passes 31-7

71% of likely Los Angeles voters support ranked choice voting to elect city officials

Stanford Professor Larry Diamond: One of the biggest takeaways was the consistent majority support for Ranked Choice Voting in all of its different potential applications. After deliberating, majorities of our sample consistently supported the use of RCV for all kinds of elections — local, state, and national, and in both primaries and in general elections.

Kent Thiry, co-chair of Unite America, calls for RCV to be used in Presidential primaries

Political columnist Mark Barabak says Californians should look to Alaska's use of RCV to see how we can improve politics

Santa Clara County might be on the brink of embracing a new era of democracy. Introduced by Assemblymembers Evan Low and Alex Lee, Assembly Bill 1227 paves the way for implementing ranked choice voting in county elections.

Cal RCV co-founder Jim Lindsay has been appointed to the Elections Commission

Cal RCV has worked to introduce a new state bill from two Silicon Valley legislators that could put Santa Clara County one step closer to adopting ranked choice voting

Single-member districts are uniquely susceptible to gerrymandering; proportional multi-member districts make the practice prohibitively hard.

Months of effort by Cal RCV and partners pays off as AB 1227 passes 67-0

Douglas Schoen recommends Ranked Choice Voting in op-ed