Editing Takoma Park, Maryland (section)

===Voting===
In the November 5, 1991, election the voters approved a referendum (1,199 for and 1,107 against) to change the Takoma Park City Charter "to permit residents of Takoma Park who are not U.S. citizens to vote in Takoma Park elections."<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 6, 1991 |title=Election Results, 1991 – 2012 |url=http://citycouncil-takomapark.s3.amazonaws.com/election/tp-election-results1991-2012.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140605160748/http://citycouncil-takomapark.s3.amazonaws.com/election/tp-election-results1991-2012.pdf |archive-date=June 5, 2014 |access-date=October 12, 2014 |website=City of Takoma Park |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

In the 2005 election, an advisory referendum to adopt [[instant-runoff voting]] (IRV, also called "ranked choice voting") for municipal elections passed with 84% approval. In 2006, the City Council amended the City Charter to incorporate IRV, making Takoma Park one of a small but growing number of municipalities across the nation to adopt IRV (and the first in Maryland to do so).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bartolanzo |first=Adam |date=2007-03-29 |title=Research Report: Assessing Instant Runoff Voting in Takoma Park (MD) |url=https://www.fairvote.org/assessing-instant-runoff-voting-in-takoma-park-md- |website=FairVote}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Wayback Machine |url=https://documents.takomaparkmd.gov/government/city-clerk/elections-and-voter-registration/IRV/IRV-FAQ-Takoma-Park.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230626170637/https://documents.takomaparkmd.gov/government/city-clerk/elections-and-voter-registration/IRV/IRV-FAQ-Takoma-Park.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2023-06-26 |access-date=2023-11-24 }}</ref>

In the 2009 election, Takoma Park used the [[Scantegrity]] voting system. This marked the first time an [[Open-source software|open source]] voting system was used in a public sector election in the United States, as well as the first time a system with [[End-to-end auditable voting systems|end-to-end verifiability]] was used.

In 2013, Takoma Park became the first city in the U.S. to allow sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds to vote.<ref name= grants/>

Convicted felons on parole and probation were also given the right to vote in Takoma Park elections in 2013.<ref name= grants/>

In 2017, the Takoma Park City Council changed the City Charter to schedule City elections in even numbered years (called "Election Synchronization") beginning in 2020.  The Council elected in 2017 would serve a three-year term.<ref>{{Cite web |title=PLANNING FOR CHANGED DATE OF CITY ELECTIONS |url=https://takomaparkmd.gov/initiatives/project-directory/election-date-change-planning |website=City of Takoma Park}}</ref>

In 2020, Takoma Park held its first ever vote-by-mail election, with 6549 ballots counted, more than 2 1/2 times the number of votes in the 2015 and 2017 elections.<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 2020 |title=December 2020 newsletter |url=https://documents.takomaparkmd.gov/news/newsletter/2020/TakomaPark-Newsletter-December2020.pdf |website=City of Takoma Park |volume=59 |number=12}}</ref>