How does the voting system work? The Electoral College has 538 members. T o be elected president, a candidate must win at least half plus one, or 270 electoral votes.

Maine also uses ranked-choice voting, though it employs a more traditional partisan primary system. Dozens of municipalities across the country also use ranked-choice voting in local elections.

Election maps across the Deep South are likely to be redrawn because of a surprise Supreme Court ruling that upheld a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, changes that could alter the balance ...

This tidy map, while effective for demonstrating the Electoral College votes, glosses over the fights for suffrage that continue today and the nuanced shortcomings of our system. Although the ...

The Electoral College system has long been a contentious issue in American politics, especially so after 2016, when for the second time in five elections the winning candidate was not the one who ...

This number, from January 2023, is based on voters who live in counties or states that use ranked-choice voting. The system has grown over the past two decades with 53 or so cities using it today.

Election officials use government databases and ERIC to check their voter rolls for inaccuracies. Twice a month, they’ll review the lists of people who died in the state, and once right before ...

Roughly 50 American voting jurisdictions have now moved to a ranked choice voting system, and it's shaping up to be one of the political subplots of 2024. Accessibility links.

Alabama officials, however, have vowed to fight the map’s use in election cycles after 2024. The federal courts, they argue, improperly imposed their judgment over that of state lawmakers who ...

Last year, the Supreme Court temporarily blocked the lower court’s ruling by a 5-to-4 vote, ensuring that the 2022 election would take place using the Legislature’s map, the one with a single ...

A federal judge in Atlanta ruled Thursday that Georgia’s redrawn congressional maps violate the Voting Rights Act and gave the state's lawmakers until Dec. 8 to submit new ones.