COLUMBIA, S.C. — Columbia officials are discussing if they should change the voting system from a majority system, which requires candidates to get more than half of the vote to win an election.

Hardner Williams, a representative from United Citizens of Port Arthur, speaks to the city council and about returning to the plurality voting system, July 5.

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Single member district plurality voting is the system most commonly used for legislative elections in the United States. How it works: In this system, all the candidates appear on the ballot and ...

I mean, the way we do elections now, the plurality system, is kind of a zero-sum game, where candidates are incentivized to take down the competition. CHINN: Absolutely.

Plurality voting is, in fact, the simplest possible voting system; here are the candidates — pick one. And that simplicity is a real strength. The problem is that it comes at a cost.

EPISD elections could still face runoffs for the foreseeable future, after trustees narrowly rejected a proposal to discuss switching to a plurality vote system. The EPISD board of trustees voted ...

Tybee Island residents are considering changing their voting system from a plurality system to a majority system. The potential change was prompted by conversations between Mayor Brian West and ...

Put bluntly, plurality rule polarizes the electorate, and human nature does the rest. The system feeds on itself. All of this paints a pretty bleak portrait of plurality rule. But never fear!

"Plurality voting's vote-for-one restriction makes it hypersensitive to the spoiler effect," says Hamlin. "It handles the spoiler effect so terribly that voters regularly vote against their ...

A “base first” strategy only works with plurality voting. In Massachusetts, the vote on ranked-choice voting is likely to be close, but both states are in position where the measure could pass.