Help Pass Consensus Voting in Your State
By advocating for the implementation of Consensus Choice Voting across the country, we can strengthen our democracy and ensure that our elections truly reflect the will of the people. Your voice and action are crucial in making this change possible.
Organize an effort in your state to adopt a constitutional amendment to implement Consensus Choice Voting, a method that ensures fairer and more representative elections.
You may have the power to advance Consensus Choice Voting through a citizen-initiated constitutional amendment.
Scroll over the map below to see requirements and links to initiate the process in your state and use our model state constitutional amendment language below. Contact us if you would like help getting started or want to connect with efforts in your state.
Eighteen (18) states provide for initiated constitutional amendments. Sixteen (16) provide for direct initiatives, and two (2) provide for indirect initiatives.
Use this model State Constitutional Amendment Language to introduce Consensus Choice Voting in your state.
Section One. In any election for a statewide [or ________] office, if the final round of voting involves three or more candidates, the ballot shall enable voters to express their preference between any two candidates, and whenever there is a candidate who, when compared to any other candidate, is preferred by a majority of the voters who express a preference between those two candidates, this one candidate who is majority-preferred compared to each opponent shall win the election.
Section Two. The legislature of this state shall enact legislation that establishes specific electoral procedures implementing the requirement set forth in Section One.