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A 2006 law established that ranked-choice voting would be used when judicial vacancies were created between a primary election and sixty days before a general election. The law also established a pilot program for RCV for up to 10 cities in 2007 and up to 10 counties for 2008; to be monitored and reported to the 2007–2008 General Assembly ...
Election Day is approaching, and Illinois voters will soon be casting their votes for federal and local races. Voting is not one-size-fits-all, and there are many factors that determine how and ...
Early voting in Illinois starts up to 40 days prior to Election Day. You can find early voting locations and hours in your jurisdiction on the Illinois State Board of Elections website.
Ranked-choice voting (RCV), preferential voting (PV), or the alternative vote (AV), is a multi-round elimination rule based on first-past-the-post. In academic contexts, the system is generally called instant-runoff voting ( IRV ) to avoid conflating it with other methods of ranked voting in general.
The contingent vote is an electoral system used to elect a single representative in which a candidate requires a majority of votes to win. It is a form of preferential voting. The voter ranks the candidates in order of preference, and when the votes are counted, the first preference votes only are counted. If no candidate has a majority (more ...
On March 19, Illinois primary voters will select their party’s nominees for an array of public offices. But the election is already underway as voters cast their ballots early or by mailing them in.
Plurality voting is the most common voting system, and has been in widespread use since the earliest democracies.As plurality voting has exhibited weaknesses from its start, especially as soon as a third party joins the race, some individuals turned to transferable votes (facilitated by contingent ranked ballots) to reduce the incidence of wasted votes and unrepresentative election results.
For those heading to the polls on Tuesday, here are some tips to help you know where to go and when in Illinois.