By Chris Powell Governor Lamont and some good-government activists want Connecticut to adopt ranked-choice voting. This is the mechanism of “instant runoff” elections in which voters rank candidates in order of their preference. Candidates receiving the fewest votes are eliminated and their votes are transferred to the remaining candidates in accordance with voter preferences untilContinue reading “Ranked-choice voting is good but Connecticut isn’t ready”
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Lieberman long was state’s most consequential politician
By Chris Powell Joe Lieberman was Connecticut’s most consequential politician of his era, holding high office in the state for 40 of the 42 years between 1971 and 2013, 24 of those in the U.S. Senate. He was also often an insurgent and sometimes crossed his party’s establishment in a big way but got awayContinue reading “Lieberman long was state’s most consequential politician”
Chris Powell column 