Roughly 50 American voting jurisdictions have now moved to a ranked choice voting system, and it's shaping up to be one of the political subplots of 2024.

Here is every state in the country that gives parents and students universal private school choice programs, a key issue that will soon be debated at the Supreme Court.

Of those, 19 states have at least one private school choice program that's universally accessible to K-12 students in the state or on track to be universally accessible.

President Donald Trump speaks about school choice alongside students Makayla Lawrence, right, and Leah Lawrence, center, during a campaign event at Discovery World in Milwaukee on October 1, 2024.

School choice supporters also face opposition from the State Board of Education, the 15-member Republican-controlled board that dictates what Texas’ public schoolchildren learn.

Ranked choice voting is used in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, and San Leandro Like traditional elections, ranked choice voting requires a majority (50%+1) to win Ballot tip: Only fill in one ...

A review of ballot records from over 150 elections shows that rejected ballots are more common in ranked choice elections than in non-ranked choice races.

Five states have banned ranked choice voting in the last two months, bringing the total number of Republican-leaning states now prohibiting the voting method to 10. Missouri could soon join them.