Legislation prohibiting ranked choice voting cleared the Ohio House on Wednesday, despite opposition from a former state attorney general who urged lawmakers to reject the proposal.

The Ohio House approved legislation that would ban ranked choice voting and cut funding from cities that use it.

The ban on ranked choice voting in Ohio has both a Republican and a Democratic sponsor, but the vote in both chambers has split largely along party lines.

(THE CONVERSATION) American democracy is straining under countless pressures, many of them rooted in structural problems that go back to the nation’s founding. Chief among them is the “pick one” ...

American democracy is straining under countless pressures, many of them rooted in structural problems that go back to the nation's founding. Chief among them is the "pick one" plurality voting ...