Minnesota still years away from considering statewide ranked choice voting

It began this session of the Minnesota Legislature as a bill that would have triggered statewide ranked choice voting in time for the 2026 election and allowed all local governments to do so sooner. As it stands with three weeks to go in the 2023 legislative session, all of that is gone. Only a 33-member task force remains in the bill, and ranked choice voting would be just one of many election issues that task force would study along with voter engagement, education and any other possible changes to election...