Ranked choice voting (RCV) has gradually gained more support in the United States with 2021 being its biggest year on record. Will Mantell revisits Fair Vote’s coverage of RCV in 2021 . Here is an excerpt:

As ranked choice voting’s biggest year yet comes to an end, it’s a great time to take a closer look at RCV and FairVote’s recent media coverage. Is this reform breaking through in the media, as it is at the ballot box? 

Looking back at FairVote’s “Media Monitoring” database from October 6 to December 22, we see a few promising trends: 

Coverage of ranked choice voting is… everywhere

From October 6 to December 22, news outlets in a whopping 35 states (plus D.C. and a student newspaper in Alabama) published at least one piece mentioning ranked choice voting. 

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