BISMARCK — A bill to ban North Dakota communities from using ranked-choice and approval voting methods in local elections has sailed through the state Legislature, an action that targets a voting ...

A voting method is the procedure at the heart of an election that specifies what information is to be gathered from voters, and how that collected information is to be utilized to determine the ...

MINOT — In 2018, the city of Fargo began counting votes differently for local elections. Thanks to a local ballot initiative approved by voters, the city began using an approval voting system, which ...

Approval voting makes polarizing candidates unelectable, and gives us politicians who can actually work together to pass important laws by consensus Utah voters, like the majority of Americans, want a ...

In this study, we propose a new direction of research on the axiomatic analysis of approval voting, which is a common democratic decision method. Its novelty is to examine an infinite population ...