| Gongwer | The Livingston Post |
Rank MI Vote, a nonprofit organization that’s held 40 town halls statewide to raise awareness about ranked choice voting, said it’s seen a spike in interest since Election Day from voters who left the ballot box feeling unsatisfied with the election process.
movement of voters who want less polarization
“Voters in Ann Arbor, East Lansing, Ferndale, Kalamazoo, and Royal Oak have already approved ranked choice voting for their local elections because they know it builds more effective political coalitions and offers better representation,” Rank MI Vote executive director Ron Zimmerman said in a statement. “Now, this movement of voters who want less polarization and better choices on their ballots is seeing a groundswell of momentum to take this reform statewide.”
Elections could become more civil and less polarizing, they reason, if voters had the opportunity to express their support for more than one candidate on the ballot and didn’t have to feel that voting for third-party or independent candidates was tantamount to throwing away their votes.