RCV History
Today the largest U.S. RCV jurisdiction, this city originally experimented with proportional ranked choice voting in the 1930s.
What is New York City?
The Fifteenth Amendment, ratified in 1870, guaranteed this group the right to vote.
Who are people of color?
The two states that have implemented RCV for statewide elections.
What are Alaska and Maine?
This 2010 Supreme Court decision opened, the floodgates for campaign spending, ruling that corporations are legally people and money is protected speech.
What is Citizens United?
John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump are the five presidents who share this dubious distinction.
What is losing the popular vote but winning the Electoral College?
This New England city has the oldest continuously operating RCV system, which has been used since 1939.
What is Cambridge, MA?
The 24th Amendment, ratified in 1964, made it illegal for states to impose this financial barrier to the ballot box.
What is the poll tax?
These two men, the major parties' presidential candidates in 2008, both strongly endorsed RCV.
Who are Barack Obama and John McCain?
Congressmen Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and Alan Lowenthal (D-CA) are working on a bipartisan bill to end this practice of redrawing districts to protect partisan interests.
What is gerrymandering?
This former President became the only third-party candidate to receive electoral votes when he ran on the Bull Moose ticket in a bid to unseat his handpicked successor in 1912.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This country has been using RCV to elect its House of Representatives since 1918 and its Senate -- the other house of Parliament -- since 1948.
What is Australia?
The most transformative piece of voting rights legislation, the Voting Rights Act, which made sweeping changes to promote racial equality, was signed into law by this president.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
The only California city on this list that has not yet adopted RCV: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, Berkeley.
What is Los Angeles?
The Let RI Vote Coalition, of which Ocean State RCV is a proud member, is working to pass this reform to help citizens who pay most attention closest to the election participate.
What is same day registration?
The last Republican presidential candidate to carry Rhode Island.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
Single-winner RCV was first developed in the 1870s by William Ware, a professor at this prestigious university.
What is MIT?
This 1842 uprising by disenfranchised Rhode Islanders resulted in the expansion of suffrage to all natural-born citizens (except Indigenous peoples).
What is the Dorr Rebellion?
Three of the five states that will have statewide RCV ballot questions in 2024.
What are Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana? (Any three acceptable).
Democrats in this state's legislature fled the state in 2021 as part of a procedural gambit to block a bill they considered an extreme voter suppression measure.
What is Texas?
If Florida had been using RCV in 2000, this third-party candidate likely wouldn't have spoiled the election for Al Gore.
Who is Ralph Nader?
Ranked choice voting first came to the U.S. for the 1915 local elections in this Ohio city.
What is Ashtabula?
This state was the first to grant women the right to vote.
What is Wyoming?
One of the two Rhode Island legislators who are spearheading the effort to advance RCV in the General Assembly.
Who are Rebecca Kislak and Valarie Lawson? (Either acceptable.)
In 2023, this deep-red state's Democratic governor teamed up with the Republican legislature and secretary of state to pass a bipartisan bill making pandemic mail and early voting changes permanent.
What is Kentucky?