MINOT — In 2018, the city of Fargo began counting votes differently for local elections. Thanks to a local ballot initiative approved by voters, the city began using an approval voting system, which ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — When Fargo voters ...

A voting method is the procedure at the heart of an election that specifies what information is to be gathered from voters, and how that collected information is to be utilized to determine the ...

As long as politicians can win elections by only appealing to 51% of the public, our country will remain divided. Polls show that a supermajority of Americans agree on sensible middle-ground positions ...

BISMARCK — A bill to ban North Dakota communities from using ranked-choice and approval voting methods in local elections has sailed through the state Legislature, an action that targets a voting ...

In this study, we propose a new direction of research on the axiomatic analysis of approval voting, which is a common democratic decision method. Its novelty is to examine an infinite population ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — When Fargo voters approved a unique local election system in 2018, their goal was to choose candidates with broader support to lead North Dakota’s largest city. It worked — maybe ...