Ranked choice voting has become more popular in recent years, particularly at the municipal level.

Alaska’s new electoral system — with open primaries and ranked-choice voting — has been a model for voters in other states who are frustrated by political polarization and a sense that voters lack real choice at the ballot box. But an initiative set for this fall’s ballot asks voters to repeal the new system.

New York City elections officials began releasing preliminary results Wednesday from ranked choice voting in last week’s City Council primaries — but those results may change in the coming days and weeks as additional ballots are tallied. Voting in the local primaries concluded June 27, but winners have yet to be determined in some City Council contests. That includes several that...

A man who was part of a group of teenagers wrongly accused and imprisoned for the rape of a woman in Central Park has taken a commanding lead in a Democratic primary for a New York City Council seat.

Democrat Mary Peltola has won the special election for Alaska’s only U.S. House seat, besting a field that included Republican Sarah Palin. Peltola, who is Yup’ik, will become the first Alaska Native to serve in the House and the first woman elected to Alaska’s House seat, which was held for 49 years by Republican Don Young. Young died in March....

Voting in the primary in New York City is in the rearview with official results expected later this week. NBC New York’s Melissa Russo reports.

In the latest unofficial count in the race for the Democratic nomination for NYC mayor, Eric Adams leads after eight rounds of ranked-choice voting, netting 50.5 percent of the vote, just enough to beat out Kathryn Garcia, with some remaining ballots still to be counted. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reports.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams appears to have held on to his tight lead in the latest count of ranked-choice voting and is projected to win the Democratic nomination for NYC mayor, according to the Associated Press. The numbers released by the New York City Board of Elections Tuesday showed Adams with a lead of just 8,426 over the second-place…

A day after it took a second pass at Democratic mayoral tabulations following this week’s debacle, the New York City Board of elections declined to release updates on races for borough president and city council, citing “quality control measures” being conducted. The BOE did not say if or when they were expecting to release the unofficial and incomplete results,...

New York City election officials created doubt about the integrity of the city’s mayoral primary Tuesday when a failure to clear old data from a computer system led to inaccurate vote tallies in the closely watched contest. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.