Ranked-ballot system could have stopped Trump, says U.S. expert set to speak to MPs on electoral reform

Harvard Professor Eric Maskin is scheduled to speak to MPs Aug. 30.

NDP MP Nathan Cullen, centre, pictured at the Commons Electoral Reform Committee earlier this summer, questioned whether Prof. Maskin’s experience and study of the U.S. electoral system would be applicable to solve Canada’s electoral problems.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY TIM NAUMETZ

August 17, 2016

A prominent Harvard professor who has argued a ranked-ballot system in the United States could have prevented Donald Trump from winning the Republican presidential nomination will be one of the final witnesses in the summer round of House of Commons committee hearings on federal electoral reform in ...

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