The Academy Awards honor the best in filmmaking every year, and the award that is arguably the most prestigious--for the best movie--is determined by ranked-choice voting. Save Democracy Host Steve Goldstein talks with Will Mantell of fairvote.org about how the Oscars may provide direction for some election reforms.

Save Democracy Host Steve Goldstein explores election reform with University of Southern California Political Scientist and Professor Christian Grose, as Grose explains the impact of California's Top Two Primary on legislation and problem-solving by elected officials.

Save Democracy host Steve Goldstein catches up with legendary baseball writer Jayson Stark to learn more about how he and his colleagues use a form of ranked choice voting to pick the sport's annual award winners in categories like Most Valuable Player and Cy Young.

John Opdycke, President of Open Primaries, talks with Steve Goldstein about how passion for election reform is as strong as he's ever seen it and the time for states to act is now.

On this edition of the Save Democracy AZ podcast, Host Steve Goldstein finds out what longtime political analyst Chris Herstam thinks of Senator Kyrsten Sinema's decision to leave the Democratic Party. Herstam also offers historical perspective on Arizona's infamous 1986 three-way battle for Governor that led to Evan Mecham winning the election and putting the state in a precarious position.

The number of independent voters continues to grow, and their impact was felt in a massive way in Arizona--as what was expected to be an extremely successful 2022 for the GOP didn't turn out that way in statewide races. Save Democracy host Steve Goldstein learns more from Thom Reilly, co-author of The Independent Voter.