For Election Officials
Election administrators are responsible for one of government's most important functions: conducting elections that are accurate, secure, transparent, and trusted by the public. Their success depends not only on counting ballots correctly, but on administering elections that voters, candidates, journalists and observers understand and can verify.
Top Three elections offer a solution for an improved method for electing leaders that combines simplicity and fairness. Top Three builds upon familiar election administration practices while introducing a straightforward method for identifying the candidate with the broadest support by comparing every finalist head-to-head.
In this video, former Milwaukee election official Claire Woodall and University of Maryland Professor Eric Pacuit explain how Top Three can give voters more viable choices, identify the candidate with the broadest support, and encourage candidates to build broader coalitions. They also discuss election administration, ballot design, voter education, precinct-level reporting, audits, recounts, and compatibility with existing voting equipment and software.