"There’s been studies done showing that the one we’re using is — meh," one City Council member said.
Updating results
Elections
Corvallis city elections featured ranked choice voting for the first time in 2022, leaving some voters with questions about how the system works and where it came from.
Govt-and-politics
The first Corvallis City Council meeting of 2023 gave new officials a full experience, complete with technical difficulties, emotional public testimony and a half-dozen votes on a single issue.
City
More than three weeks after the Nov. 8 contest, Benton County Elections releases the mayor and Ward 9 results in the city's first use of ranked-choice voting.
Local
Election night in a newsroom is a magical place, and not just because of free pizza to power journalists through the evening, though that’s always a tasty perk.
City
The results may not be known until December. Here's why.
Ranked choice voting has been in vogue across the nation, with many cities and some states changing their elections to incorporate it.
Those of us in Benton County who have been anxiously awaiting our first opportunity to use ranked choice voting can only jealously cast our ey…
Those of us in Benton County who have been anxiously awaiting our first opportunity to use ranked choice voting can only jealously cast our ey…
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Benton County voters will have to wait two more years, and possibly longer, to see how the county's experiment in ranked choice voting plays o…
This year's short session of the Oregon Legislature was even shorter than advertised: The session wrapped up March 3, more than a week before …
This year's short session of the Oregon Legislature was even shorter than advertised: The session wrapped up on Saturday, more than a week bef…
Benton County is poised to become the first jurisdiction in Oregon to use ranked-choice voting in future elections.
Under the logic of “ranked choice voting,” we’ll give our votes away. Supporting 2-100, will end write-in voting, our most important local vot…
Discouraged by the election? In Benton County you can make a real difference by voting for Measure 2-100: ranked choice voting (RCV).
The most important thing we can do to fix our political system is to fix the way we vote. Benton County voters have the chance to do exactly t…
I stand with Hillary Clinton in the presidential race. Others will back Donald J. Trump. But polls suggest that almost 1 in 10 voters is makin…
Although I had heard of ranked choice voting I did not know enough about it to form an opinion. I wondered how this voting method would addres…
Nothing lubricates a political discussion like beer, and supporters of a ballot measure to implement ranked choice voting in Benton County are…