This is a preliminary version of our presentation of ranked voting.

The Problem: Winner-Take-All

In single-winner elections (executive offices and single-member legislative districts), our traditional plurality voting rules allow candidates supported by a minority of voters to win, if the rest of the community is divided among more than one alternative candidate. Plurality elections result in legislative bodies that over-represent some groups and under-represent others. And they leave every voter who didn’t vote for the single winner in his or her district unrepresented.