A bill to require ranked choice voting for all congressional primary and general elections has been introduced in both houses of Congress. The U.S. Senate sponsor is Peter Welch (D-Vermont). The two chief sponsors in the House are Jaime Raskin (D-Maryland) and Don Beyer (D-Virginia).

It would require ranked choice voting in both primaries and general elections, so that the current top-two systems in California and Washington would need to be revised. Furthermore, it says that if a state uses systems without party nominees, at least three candidates must be allowed to advance to the general election.

Ballot Access News
By Richard Winger
September 24, 2024

The bill says that if a state defines a qualified party in terms of how many votes it received in the last election, that state must give the party credit for the round of voting which produced the highest number of votes.

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