Susan PotterMar 18

For Illinois US Senate primary results tonight: https://apnews.com/projects/elections-2026/illinois-primary-results-us-senate/

Team Stratton here.

2026 Illinois U.S. Senate Primary Live Results

Live results for the March 17, 2026 Illinois U.S. Senate primary. Track election results with real-time vote counts, county-level maps and race calls from AP.

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Show threadSusan PotterMar 18
Stratton +6% with 59% of the votes counted.
Show threadSusan PotterMar 18
I am loving competitive Democratic seats in Illinois primaries for a change!
Show threadSusan PotterMar 18
But #illinois we need ranked choice voting!!!! Plus open and collective primaries with the top two in a general run-off independent of party assignment! Sigh.
Show threadÉcole des Bro-ArtsMar 18
@SusanPotter I've been thinking the same--I really would have appreciated ranked-choice this round.
Show threadLeon P SmithMar 18

@aphyr @SusanPotter Ranked-Choice Voting suffers from a lot of very non-obvious problems. I would recommend approval voting or score voting for their relative simplicity and predictability.

http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/

Voting Simulation Visualizations

Show threadÉcole des Bro-Arts

@leon_p_smith @SusanPotter <sigh> I should have known better than to mention voting on the internet. There's always someone ready to do this lol.

Yes, I know about Arrow's theorem, and I bet Susan does too.

Mar 18 at 2:14amWeb
Show threadLeon P SmithMar 18
@aphyr @SusanPotter No, this has nothing to do with Arrow's Theorem, which doesn't (strictly speaking) apply to Approval Voting and Score Voting. These points are legitimate, not pendantic quibbling, I assure you. The methodology is statistical, not axiomatic.