What If Changing the Way We Vote Could Change Everything? A New Documentary

Concerned about our democracy in these troubled times?

Think gerrymandering is a problem?

Tired of partisan bickering?

Sick of voting for the “lesser of two evils”?

What if changing the way we vote could change everything?

With America's democratic experiment mired in division and dysfunction, the citizens of Alaska voted to revolutionize their electoral system. The state known as “The Last Frontier” implemented two reforms, open nonpartisan elections and ranked choice voting, which helped produce a more representative outcome in its 2022 elections. These results sparked a new bipartisan alliance but also produced claims of ”foul" from the losers.

Across the nation, Alaska's success has inspired a growing call for election reforms as well as fierce pushback from political parties.

Learn more about the struggle to transform our government in the new documentary movie Majority Rules. Starring several notable candidates learning to navigate this new political landscape, it also includes commentary from Harvard professor and recent UMass visitor Danielle Allen.

Come by at 6:30 for food and drink! The movie will be followed by a discussion and a tryout of ranked choice voting with Professors Justin Gross of the School of Public Policy and Andy Anderson of the Dept. of Environmental Conservation.

Co-sponsored by the UMass School of Public Policy,  
the League of Women Voters, Voter Choice MA, and Rank the Vote.