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ballots, Alaskans approved a measure to join Maine in conducting their elections using ranked-choice voting by approving the ballot initiative Measure 2.\nMeasure 2 makes sweeping changes to how Alaska administers elections. Instead of two primaries, in which each political party nominates a candidate for the general election in November, the state will hold one open primary from which the top four candidates, regardless of party affiliation, proceed to the general election.\nRanked-choice voting lets voters list the candidates in order of preference.\n“This is a victory for all Alaskans regardless of their political leaning,” Shea Siegert, manager of the Yes on 2 for Better Elections campaign, said in a statement Wednesday. “We now have an electoral system that lives up to Alaska’s independent streak by saying ‘to hell with politics let’s do what is right for Alaska.’”\nAlaska’s outcome was a victory for voting reform campaigners, who have argued that changing how we vote might address hyperpartisanship and polarization while giving third-party candidates a better chance at elected office. Opponents have warned it could be a logistical headache, though so far the cities and states that have adopted ranked-choice voting have conducted their elections without major problems. Massachusetts considered a similar law this November but rejected it.\nRanked-choice voting works like this: Instead of just picking one of the candidates on the ballot, you rank them from most preferred to least preferred. While it is new in the United States, it has been successfully used for a century in Australia and in Ireland.\nThe idea is that this allows voters to choose their favorite possible candidate. Most of the United States has what’s called a first-past-the-post electoral system, where the candidate who receives the most votes becomes president. First-past-the-post systems incentivize strategic voting (voting not for your favorite candidate but for your preferred candidate with a real shot at victory), and they have driven the rise of a two-party system like the one in the US.\nAnd while first-past-the-post voting systems are not the only factor that has led to the two-party system or to the increasing polarization of America, they’ve certainly contributed. First-past-the-post systems mean third-party candidates rarely win, even if many voters prefer them; each voter expects that voting for a third party constitutes “throwing away” their vote.\nImagine a person were deciding between President Donald Trump, Democratic candidate Joe Biden, Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins, and Libertarian Party candidate Jo Jorgensen. Our hypothetical voter likes both Hawkins and Jorgensen better than Biden but would prefer Biden win than Trump.\nUnder first-past-the-post voting — the voting system most Americans voted with this election — our hypothetical voter might feel forced to vote for Biden. Under ranked-choice voting, they would list (for example) Hawkins first, Jorgensen second, Biden third, and Trump fourth. When ballots are counted, the ballot counters will eliminate the candidate with the fewest first-place votes and “move” their vote to their second-place candidate.\nYou can see how it works on this ballot from Maine, which conducted the first-ever general statewide election with ranked-choice voting this November.\n[Image: https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/21993563/media_7e9cf132d236443bbc05d22b40af96a7Election_2020_Maine_Ranked_Voting_89453.jpg?quality=90&strip=all]\nAs a result, third-party candidates get more votes because voters don’t feel like they’re throwing their vote away by supporting them. And the process generally favors candidates whom lots of voters find acceptable over polarizing candidates whom many voters hate.\n“Ranked-choice voting rewards candidates who can appeal most broadly because candidates compete to be voters’ second and third choices as well as their first,” voting reform expert Lee Drutman wrote for Vox in 2019. Studies find that in areas with ranked-choice voting, campaigns are more civil. Ranked-choice voting might also increase representation of women and minorities, who seem to benefit when the electoral conditions encourage coalition building.\nThat’s a particularly big deal in Alaska, where independents account for 57 percent of registered voters but hold only three seats in the state legislature.\nAnother implication of Ballot Measure 2 is that Alaska’s moderate Republican senator, Lisa Murkowski, is in less danger of being primaried from the right — which is what happened in 2010, when a more conservative Republican won the party’s nomination, forcing Murkowski to run an unprecedented successful write-in campaign to keep her seat. In a ranked-choice voting system, Murkowski only needs to be one of the top four candidates in the primary to advance to the general election.\nA growing conversation about how we vote\nRanked-choice voting is used all over the world, but until two decades ago — when San Francisco adopted it — it was rarely used or discussed in the US.\nUS election experts, concerned about growing polarization and voter disenchantment, began encouraging other cities and states to adopt it. It did nicely in San Francisco, and other cities signed on. Eventually, the movement hit the national stage: In 2018, Maine became the first state to adopt ranked-choice voting. In 2019, New York City signed on as well. In the 2020 election cycle, presidential candidates Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Michael Bennet endorsed it.\nThese early adopters allow us a window into some important questions about ranked-choice voting. In particular, critics have worried it will be harder for the election office to tabulate and that it will confuse voters or lead to more spoiled ballots.\nNo such problems were reported in this year’s ranked-choice primaries, and ranked-choice voting works fine in many other countries. But Maine’s high statewide turnout in the 2020 general election represented the system’s first time in the spotlight for most Americans. With both Maine and Alaska now using ranked-choice voting, this method of conducting elections will have a chance to prove that it works — or that it doesn’t — in combating the rising tide of polarization."},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Politics","item":"https://www.vox.com/politics"}]}]</script><link rel="preload" as="image" imageSrcSet="https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22006546/GettyImages_594745352.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=376 376w, https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22006546/GettyImages_594745352.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=384 384w, https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22006546/GettyImages_594745352.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=415 415w, 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https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22006546/GettyImages_594745352.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=1920 1920w, https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22006546/GettyImages_594745352.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2048 2048w, https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22006546/GettyImages_594745352.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400 2400w" src="https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22006546/GettyImages_594745352.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400"/></div></div><div class="duet--media--caption xptnl10"><figcaption class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup xkp0cg2 xptnl12">Voters in Alaska have approved ranked-choice voting.</figcaption> <cite class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup xkp0cg2 xptnl11">Brianna Soukup/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images</cite></div></div></div></div><div class="_135mano5"><div class="_1jvzqea1 _1jvzqea0"><div class="_1j8rw6n0 _1j8rw6n1"><div class="_1j8rw6n3"><img alt="Kelsey Piper" data-chromatic="ignore" loading="lazy" width="36" height="36" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="_1j8rw6n4" style="color:transparent" srcSet="https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/author_profile_images/191475/Screen_Shot_2018-09-25_at_11.18.29_AM.0.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=48 1x, https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/author_profile_images/191475/Screen_Shot_2018-09-25_at_11.18.29_AM.0.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=96 2x" src="https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/author_profile_images/191475/Screen_Shot_2018-09-25_at_11.18.29_AM.0.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=96"/></div><div class="_1j8rw6n5"><a class="_1j8rw6n6" href="/authors/kelsey-piper">Kelsey Piper</a> <span class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1j8rw6n7">is a senior writer at Future Perfect, Vox’s effective altruism-inspired section on the world’s biggest challenges. She explores wide-ranging topics like climate change, artificial intelligence, vaccine development, and factory farms, and also writes the Future Perfect newsletter.</span></div></div></div></div></div><div id="zephr-anchor" class="_1agbrixz"><div class="duet--article--article-body-component"><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg1">In a tight vote that came down to about 4,000 ballots, Alaskans approved a measure to <a href="/2018/6/12/17448450/maine-ranked-choice-voting-paul-lepage-instant-runoff-2018-midterms">join Maine</a> in conducting their elections using ranked-choice voting by <a href="/policy-and-politics/2020/11/3/21546902/live-results-ballot-initiatives-democracy-reform">approving the ballot initiative Measure 2</a>.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-component"><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg1">Measure 2 makes sweeping changes to how Alaska administers elections. Instead of two primaries, in which each political party nominates a candidate for the general election in November, the state will hold one open primary from which the top four candidates, regardless of party affiliation, proceed to the general election.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-component"><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg1">Ranked-choice voting lets voters list the candidates in order of preference.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-component"><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg1">“This is a victory for all Alaskans regardless of their political leaning,” Shea Siegert, manager of the Yes on 2 for Better Elections campaign, <a href="https://alaskansforbetterelections.com/alaska-voters-approve-landmark-nonpartisan-election-reforms/">said in a statement Wednesday</a>. “We now have an electoral system that lives up to Alaska’s independent streak by saying ‘to hell with politics let’s do what is right for Alaska.’”</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-component"><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg1">Alaska’s outcome was a victory for voting reform campaigners, who have argued that changing how we vote might address hyperpartisanship and polarization while giving third-party candidates a better chance at elected office. Opponents have warned it could be a logistical headache, though so far the cities and states that have adopted ranked-choice voting have conducted their elections without major problems. Massachusetts considered a similar law this November but rejected it.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-component"><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg1">Ranked-choice voting works like this: Instead of just picking one of the candidates on the ballot, you rank them from most preferred to least preferred. While it is new in the United States, it has been successfully used for a century in Australia and in Ireland.</p></div><div class="duet--article--block-placement _80slsf1 _80slsf0 duet--article--article-body-component"><div class="duet--article--related _1agbrixj ocbnk80"><h3 class="ocbnk83 ocbnk81">Related</h3><ul class="ocbnk85"><li class="ocbnk88 ocbnk86"><a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/11/3/21546902/live-results-ballot-initiatives-democracy-reform" class="ocbnk89">Live results: Ballot initiatives on democracy reform</a></li></ul></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-component"><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg1">The idea is that this allows voters to choose their favorite possible candidate. Most of the United States has what’s called a first-past-the-post electoral system, where the candidate who receives the most votes becomes president. First-past-the-post systems incentivize strategic voting (voting not for your favorite candidate but for your preferred candidate with a real shot at victory), and they have driven the rise of a two-party system like the one in the US.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-component"><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg1">And while first-past-the-post voting systems are not the only factor that has led to the two-party system or to the <a href="/2020/1/24/21076232/polarization-america-international-party-political">increasing polarization of America</a>, they’ve certainly contributed. First-past-the-post systems mean third-party candidates rarely win, even if many voters prefer them; each voter expects that voting for a third party constitutes “throwing away” their vote.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-component"><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg1">Imagine a person were deciding between President Donald Trump, Democratic candidate Joe Biden, Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins, and Libertarian Party candidate Jo Jorgensen. Our hypothetical voter likes both Hawkins and Jorgensen better than Biden but would prefer Biden win than Trump.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-component"><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg1">Under first-past-the-post voting — the voting system most Americans voted with this election — our hypothetical voter might feel forced to vote for Biden. Under ranked-choice voting, they would list (for example) Hawkins first, Jorgensen second, Biden third, and Trump fourth. When ballots are counted, the ballot counters will eliminate the candidate with the fewest first-place votes and “move” their vote to their second-place candidate.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-component"><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg1">You can see how it works on this ballot from Maine, which conducted the first-ever general statewide election with ranked-choice voting this November.</p></div><div class="duet--article--block-placement _80slsf1 _80slsf0 duet--article--article-body-component"><div style="position:relative"><div class="_1agbrixj"><div class=""><div style="background-image:none" class="duet--media--content-warning licp6k0"><div class="duet--article--image-gallery-image _1j8uwx0" style="aspect-ratio:1.499022" id="dngyOmltYWdlOjM4Nzgx"><a class="_1j8uwx1" 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https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/21993563/media_7e9cf132d236443bbc05d22b40af96a7Election_2020_Maine_Ranked_Voting_89453.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400 2400w" src="https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/21993563/media_7e9cf132d236443bbc05d22b40af96a7Election_2020_Maine_Ranked_Voting_89453.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400"/></a></div></div></div><div class="duet--media--caption xptnl10"><cite class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup xkp0cg2 xptnl11">David Sharp/AP Photo</cite></div></div></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-component"><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg1">As a result, third-party candidates get more votes because voters don’t feel like they’re throwing their vote away by supporting them. And the process generally favors candidates whom lots of voters find acceptable over polarizing candidates whom many voters hate.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-component"><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg1">“Ranked-choice voting rewards candidates who can appeal most broadly because candidates compete to be voters’ second and third choices as well as their first,” voting reform expert Lee Drutman <a href="/polyarchy/2019/3/21/18275785/electoral-college-ranked-choice-voting-president-democracy">wrote for Vox in 2019</a>. Studies find that in areas with ranked-choice voting, campaigns are <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ncr.21307">more civil</a>. Ranked-choice voting might also <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0261379417304006">increase representation of women and minorities</a>, who seem to benefit when the electoral conditions encourage coalition building.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-component"><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg1">That’s a particularly <a href="https://www.adn.com/politics/2020/10/29/on-ballot-measure-2-republicans-and-democrats-ally-against-an-independent-supported-push-for-election-reform-in-alaska/">big deal in Alaska</a>, where independents account for 57 percent of registered voters but hold only three seats in the state legislature.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-component"><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg1">Another implication of Ballot Measure 2 is that Alaska’s moderate Republican senator, Lisa Murkowski, is in less danger of being primaried from the right — <a href="https://www.adn.com/politics/article/alaska-senate-race-untold-story-lisa-murkowski-s-write-decision/2010/11/12/">which is what happened in 2010,</a> when a more conservative Republican won the party’s nomination, forcing Murkowski to run an unprecedented successful write-in campaign to keep her seat. In a ranked-choice voting system, Murkowski only needs to be one of the top four candidates in the primary to advance to the general election.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-component"><div id="a-growing-conversation-about-how-we-vote" class="_7ka5u1 _7ka5u0 duet--article--standard-heading xkp0cg1"><h2 class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup">A growing conversation about how we vote</h2></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-component"><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg1">Ranked-choice voting is used all over the world, but until two decades ago — when San Francisco adopted it — it was rarely used or discussed in the US.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-component"><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg1">US election experts, concerned about growing polarization and voter disenchantment, began encouraging other cities and states to adopt it. It did nicely in San Francisco, and <a href="https://www.fairvote.org/where_is_ranked_choice_voting_used">other cities signed on</a>. Eventually, the movement hit the national stage: In 2018, <a href="/the-highlight/2019/7/24/20700007/maine-san-francisco-ranked-choice-voting">Maine became the first state</a> to adopt ranked-choice voting. In 2019, <a href="/policy-and-politics/2019/11/1/20941870/ranked-choice-voting-new-york-city">New York City signed on as well</a>. In the 2020 election cycle, presidential candidates Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Michael Bennet endorsed it.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-component"><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg1">These early adopters allow us a window into some important questions about ranked-choice voting. In particular, critics have worried it will be harder for the election office to tabulate and that it will confuse voters or lead to more spoiled ballots.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-component"><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg1">No such problems were reported in this year’s ranked-choice primaries, and ranked-choice voting works fine in many other countries. But Maine’s high statewide turnout in the 2020 general election represented the system’s first time in the spotlight for most Americans. With both Maine and Alaska now using ranked-choice voting, this method of conducting elections will have a chance to prove that it works — or that it doesn’t — in combating the rising tide of polarization.</p></div><div class="_1mls1bj0"><span class="_1mls1bj1">See More<!-- -->:<span class="_1mls1bj2"> </span></span><ul class="_1g6d7eue"><li class="_1g6d7euc fatpw50"><a href="/2020-presidential-election" class="_1g6d7eu8">2020 Presidential Election</a></li><li class="_1g6d7euc fatpw50"><a href="/politics" class="_1g6d7eu8">Politics</a></li></ul></div></div><div class="duet--layout--header-pattern _1agbrixz _8mwktg0"><div class="_1iaikll3"><div class="_1yizdi80 _1yizdi81"><div class="_1yizdi8h _1yizdi8f"><h2 class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1yizdi8m _1yizdi8l xkp0cg2 xkp0cg1">More in this stream</h2><span class="_1yizdi8y"><a class="fatpw50" href="/policy-and-politics/2020/11/2/21541260/biggest-2020-state-ballot-initiatives"><span class="duet--cta--link-button fatpw51 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defund the police movement</a></div></div><div class="_1k0riie _1k0rii0"><span class="u2goo40">By </span><span class="u2goo42 xkp0cg5"><span><span>Roge Karma</span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="duet--content-cards--content-card _1agz5xb2 _1agz5xb0 qcd9z0"><div class="_1agz5xb8 _1agz5xb6 _1agz5xbc _1agz5xbh _102m78f3"><img alt="Massachusetts voters reject ranked-choice voting in ballot initiative" data-chromatic="ignore" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-nimg="fill" class="_1agz5xbf mvmjsc0" style="position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' %3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' 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https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22006562/AP_20267665896809.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2048 2048w, https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22006562/AP_20267665896809.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400 2400w" src="https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22006562/AP_20267665896809.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400"/></div><div class="_1agz5xbi"><div class=""><div class=""><div class="_1k0rii4 _1k0rii0"></div><div><div class="xkp0cg9 _1neefee5 _1neefee2"><a class="qcd9z1" href="/2020/11/4/21537219/massachusetts-question-2-ranked-choice-voting-results">Massachusetts voters reject ranked-choice voting in ballot initiative</a></div></div><div class="_1k0riie _1k0rii0"><span class="u2goo40">By </span><span class="u2goo42 xkp0cg5"><span><span>Kelsey Piper</span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="duet--content-cards--content-card _1agz5xb2 _1agz5xb0 qcd9z0 _1agz5xbk _1agz5xbl"><div class="_1agz5xb8 _1agz5xb6 _1agz5xbc _1agz5xbh _102m78f3"><img alt="San Francisco hasn’t defunded its police force yet — but just voted to make it smaller" data-chromatic="ignore" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-nimg="fill" class="_1agz5xbf mvmjsc0" style="position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' %3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite 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1440w, https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/gettyimages-2192290533.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=1920 1920w, https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/gettyimages-2192290533.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2048 2048w, https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/gettyimages-2192290533.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400 2400w" src="https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/gettyimages-2192290533.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400"/></div><div class="_1agz5xbi"><div class=""><div class=""><div class="_1k0rii4 _1k0rii0"><span class="_1g6d7eu0 xkp0cg7 xkp0cg5">Policy</span><span class="duet--article--timestamp _1rf9w8o2 _1rf9w8o0 xkp0cg5 _1agbrixr"><time dateTime="2025-03-02T13:00:00+00:00">1:00 PM UTC</time></span></div><div><div class="xkp0cg9 _1neefee5 _1neefee2"><a class="qcd9z1" href="/policy/401265/trump-ends-congestion-pricing-low-income-commuters-public-transit">Congestion pricing is good for low-income residents</a></div></div><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1neefeej _1neefeee _1neefeef">Why New York’s new traffic policy is the opposite of elitist.</p><div class="_1k0riie _1k0rii0"><span class="u2goo40">By </span><span class="u2goo42 xkp0cg5"><span><span>Abdallah Fayyad</span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="duet--content-cards--content-card _1agz5xb3 _1agz5xb0 qcd9z0"><div class="_1agz5xb9 _1agz5xb6 _1agz5xbc _1agz5xbh _102m78f3"><img alt="The twisted appeal of Trump’s humiliation of Zelenskyy" data-chromatic="ignore" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-nimg="fill" class="_1agz5xbf mvmjsc0" style="position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' %3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mN8+R8AAtcB6oaHtZcAAAAASUVORK5CYII='/%3E%3C/svg%3E")" sizes="100px" srcSet="https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/gettyimages-2201830748.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=16 16w, 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https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/gettyimages-2201830748.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400 2400w" src="https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/gettyimages-2201830748.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400"/></div><div class="_1agz5xbi"><div class=""><div class=""><div class="_1k0rii4 _1k0rii0"><span class="_1g6d7eu0 xkp0cg7 xkp0cg5">Politics</span><span class="duet--article--timestamp _1rf9w8o2 _1rf9w8o0 xkp0cg5 _1agbrixr"><time dateTime="2025-03-02T00:50:00+00:00">12:50 AM UTC</time></span></div><div><div class="xkp0cg9 _1neefee5 _1neefee2"><a class="qcd9z1" href="/politics/402170/trump-zelenskyy-ukraine-russia-press-conference-joe-rogan">The twisted appeal of Trump’s humiliation of Zelenskyy</a></div></div><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1neefeej _1neefeee _1neefeef">Why some conservatives took pride in a national disgrace.</p><div class="_1k0riie _1k0rii0"><span class="u2goo40">By </span><span class="u2goo42 xkp0cg5"><span><span>Eric Levitz</span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="duet--content-cards--content-card _1agz5xb3 _1agz5xb0 qcd9z0"><div class="_1agz5xb9 _1agz5xb6 _1agz5xbc _1agz5xbh _102m78f3"><img alt="The big Trump-Zelenskyy blowup, briefly explained" data-chromatic="ignore" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-nimg="fill" class="_1agz5xbf mvmjsc0" style="position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' %3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite 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xkp0cg5">Politics</span><span class="duet--article--timestamp _1rf9w8o2 _1rf9w8o0 xkp0cg5 _1agbrixr"><time dateTime="2025-02-28T21:56:30+00:00">Feb 28</time></span></div><div><div class="xkp0cg9 _1neefee5 _1neefee2"><a class="qcd9z1" href="/politics/402134/the-big-trump-zelenskyy-blowup-briefly-explained">The big Trump-Zelenskyy blowup, briefly explained</a></div></div><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1neefeej _1neefeee _1neefeef">What the Oval Office confrontation tells us about Trump — and the future of Russia’s war on Ukraine.</p><div class="_1k0riie _1k0rii0"><span class="u2goo40">By </span><span class="u2goo42 xkp0cg5"><span><span>Patrick Reis</span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="duet--content-cards--content-card _1agz5xb3 _1agz5xb0 qcd9z0"><div class="_1agz5xb9 _1agz5xb6 _1agz5xbc _1agz5xbh _102m78f3"><img alt="Elon Musk’s plans for mass government firings just hit a legal roadblock" data-chromatic="ignore" loading="lazy" 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src="https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/gettyimages-2197648639.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.02498750624688%2C100%2C99.950024987506&w=2400"/></div><div class="_1agz5xbi"><div class=""><div class=""><div class="_1k0rii4 _1k0rii0"><span class="xkp0cg7 xkp0cg5 _1k0riib">Trump 2.0, explained</span><span class="duet--article--timestamp _1rf9w8o2 _1rf9w8o0 xkp0cg5 _1agbrixr"><time dateTime="2025-02-28T20:35:00+00:00">Feb 28</time></span></div><div><div class="xkp0cg9 _1neefee5 _1neefee2"><a class="qcd9z1" href="/politics/402090/court-musk-layoffs-firing-government-workers">Elon Musk’s plans for mass government firings just hit a legal roadblock</a></div></div><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1neefeej _1neefeee _1neefeef">Here’s what’s next for federal workers.</p><div class="_1k0riie _1k0rii0"><span class="u2goo40">By </span><span class="u2goo42 xkp0cg5"><span><span>Nicole Narea</span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div><div 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xkp0cg5">Climate</span><span class="duet--article--timestamp _1rf9w8o2 _1rf9w8o0 xkp0cg5 _1agbrixr"><time dateTime="2025-02-28T17:20:00+00:00">Feb 28</time></span></div><div><div class="xkp0cg9 _1neefee5 _1neefee2"><a class="qcd9z1" href="/climate/402004/noaa-nws-layoffs-climate-weather-probation">Who needs weather reports anyway?</a></div></div><p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1neefeej _1neefeee _1neefeef">How layoffs at NOAA reveal a flaw in the government’s hiring system, briefly explained.</p><div class="_1k0riie _1k0rii0"><span class="u2goo40">By </span><span class="u2goo42 xkp0cg5"><span><span>Umair Irfan</span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="duet--content-cards--content-card _1agz5xb3 _1agz5xb0 qcd9z0 _1agz5xbk _1agz5xbl"><div class="_1agz5xb9 _1agz5xb6 _1agz5xbc _1agz5xbh _102m78f3"><img alt="How the Epstein Files blew up in Trump’s face" data-chromatic="ignore" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-nimg="fill" class="_1agz5xbf 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Instead of two primaries, in which each political party nominates a candidate for the general election in November, the state will hold one open primary from which the top four candidates, regardless of party affiliation, proceed to the general election.\nRanked-choice voting lets voters list the candidates in order of preference.\n\u0026ldquo;This is a victory for all Alaskans regardless of their political leaning,\u0026rdquo; Shea Siegert, manager of the Yes on 2 for Better Elections campaign, said in a statement Wednesday. \u0026ldquo;We now have an electoral system that lives up to Alaska\u0026rsquo;s independent streak by saying \u0026lsquo;to hell with politics let\u0026rsquo;s do what is right for Alaska.\u0026rsquo;\u0026rdquo;\nAlaska\u0026rsquo;s outcome was a victory for voting reform campaigners, who have argued that changing how we vote might address hyperpartisanship and polarization while giving third-party candidates a better chance at elected office. 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First-past-the-post systems incentivize strategic voting (voting not for your favorite candidate but for your preferred candidate with a real shot at victory), and they have driven the rise of a two-party system like the one in the US.\nAnd while first-past-the-post voting systems are not the only factor that has led to the two-party system or to the increasing polarization of America, they\u0026rsquo;ve certainly contributed. First-past-the-post systems mean third-party candidates rarely win, even if many voters prefer them; each voter expects that voting for a third party constitutes \u0026ldquo;throwing away\u0026rdquo; their vote.\nImagine a person were deciding between President Donald Trump, Democratic candidate Joe Biden, Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins, and Libertarian Party candidate Jo Jorgensen. 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When ballots are counted, the ballot counters will eliminate the candidate with the fewest first-place votes and \u0026ldquo;move\u0026rdquo; their vote to their second-place candidate.\nYou can see how it works on this ballot from Maine, which conducted the first-ever general statewide election with ranked-choice voting this November.\n[Image: https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/21993563/media_7e9cf132d236443bbc05d22b40af96a7Election_2020_Maine_Ranked_Voting_89453.jpg?quality=90\u0026strip=all]\nAs a result, third-party candidates get more votes because voters don\u0026rsquo;t feel like they\u0026rsquo;re throwing their vote away by supporting them. And the process generally favors candidates whom lots of voters find acceptable over polarizing candidates whom many voters hate.\n\u0026ldquo;Ranked-choice voting rewards candidates who can appeal most broadly because candidates compete to be voters\u0026rsquo; second and third choices as well as their first,\u0026rdquo; voting reform expert Lee Drutman wrote for Vox in 2019. Studies find that in areas with ranked-choice voting, campaigns are more civil. Ranked-choice voting might also increase representation of women and minorities, who seem to benefit when the electoral conditions encourage coalition building.\nThat\u0026rsquo;s a particularly big deal in Alaska, where independents account for 57 percent of registered voters but hold only three seats in the state legislature.\nAnother implication of Ballot Measure 2 is that Alaska\u0026rsquo;s moderate Republican senator, Lisa Murkowski, is in less danger of being primaried from the right \u0026mdash; which is what happened in 2010, when a more conservative Republican won the party\u0026rsquo;s nomination, forcing Murkowski to run an unprecedented successful write-in campaign to keep her seat. 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