News Clips

Anti-IDC state senators come out swinging for ranked choice voting

Shockingly few candidates for city office won more than 50% of the vote in the last three election cycles, according to research cited by Common Cause/NY. “A mere 36% of multi-candidate primaries were won with more than 50% of the vote during the last three election cycles. Worse, still, 29.8% of multi-candidate primaries were won with less than 40%,” according to a Common Cause/NY primer.