With as many as 18 candidates in the Democratic primary for IL-09, it is clear that Illinois desperately needs ranked choice voting for its primary elections. This race could theoretically be won by a candidate with as little as 5.56% of the vote due to vote splitting. RCV would require the winning candidate to have a true majority of >50%, all while mitigating the problems of "spoilers" and "vote splitting."

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🗞 Evanston Roundtable: "[The City of Evanston] is preparing to join a refiled lawsuit aimed at compelling the Cook County Clerk's Office to actually implement [ranked choice voting]." The legally binding November 2022 referendum "passed decisively with over 82% support."

Read the full article, which excellently summarizes the litigation so far, here: https://www.evanstonroundtable.com/2025/11/25/city-will-join-second-run-of-lawsuit-over-ranked-choice-voting/

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Great day for a protest.

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