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Rank-Choice Voting Can Serve as a Bulwark Against Extremism
By Jeanne Massey, Executive Director of FairVote MN
Anti-democratic forces that have been gaining steam in recent years reached a boiling point in the 2020 election cycle, culminating in a full-blown crisis on Jan. 6. And while we have faced numerous challenges over the past year, this one is like none other because it is aimed squarely at democracy itself ... The good news in this dark time is that we have a reform, ranked-choice voting, that is a proven, powerful antidote to political extremism, and it has been introduced in the Minnesota Legislature this session.
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Political Divisiveness Calls For ‘Master Reform’: Ranked-Choice Voting
By Jeanne Massey
Our current state of extreme divisiveness didn’t start under the current presidency, but it has certainly intensified … Political scientists, electoral reformers, economists and legislators are all coming together around a simple, viable and powerful electoral reform solution — ranked-choice voting.