Fargo, North Dakota, Approval Voting Initiative was Passed Tuesday.

Approval Voting is a Single-Winner Electoral system where each Voter may Select, or Approve, any Number of Candidates. The Winner is the most-Approved Candidate.

Fargo will become the First City in the United States to use Approval Voting over other methods.

The Approval Voting Won by 12,777 Votes with 30,041 People Voting in Favor of the Initiative while 17,264 Voted against it.

“People are seeing the faults of plurality voting—far and away the worst voting single-winner voting method. And through that knowledge, they’re motivated to experiment,” said Aaron Hamlin, Executive Director of The Center for Election Science.

The Center for Election Science is a Nonpartisan, Nonprofit, 501(c)(3) Organization “dedicated to helping the world use smarter election systems.” The Organization heavily pushes Approval Voting as one of the Simplest of the better Voting Methods out there.

“As more people learn about approval voting, heightened interest inevitably follows,” said Hamlin. He added that in States across the Country, Key Stakeholders in these Reform Efforts have reached out to his Organization for Technical Guidance on moving forward.

The Election Task Force in Fargo told Commission Members that the City’s Election Equipment can easily make the switch to Approval Voting with little Cost.










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