Ranked-Choice Voting News Roundup - October 2026
by Staff
Welcome to our weekly news roundup, where we highlight the top stories surrounding ranked-choice voting—both opposing and supporting—throughout the nation.
Week of September 27
Appetite for ranked choice voting remains six years after statewide vote
WWLP-22News | October 1, 2026
Six years after Massachusetts voters rejected statewide ranked choice voting in 2020, local interest persists. Salem and other cities and towns have sought home-rule permission to put municipal ranked-choice voting on the ballot, but most of those petitions have been sent to study and stalled in the Legislature.
It’s time to end the failed experiment with ranked choice voting
Juneau Independent | October 1, 2026
Anchorage attorney Donald Craig Mitchell argues in a Juneau Independent guest column that Alaska’s ranked-choice voting system, narrowly adopted in 2020, is a failed experiment mainly designed to help Sen. Lisa Murkowski avoid a Republican primary she would likely have lost.
Irvine’s Measure D: Ranked choice voting
The LAist | September 29, 2026
Measure D asks Irvine voters whether to use ranked-choice voting for mayor and city council races.
Bob Griffin: Ranking 1,2,3 in the governor’s race is the only path to a Republican winning
The Alaska Story | September 29, 2026
The op-ed argues that Alaska Republicans can still win the governor’s race under ranked-choice voting if they rank all three remaining GOP candidates 1-2-3.