In ranked-choice voting, a candidate needs more than 50 percent of the vote to be declared the winner outright. If the front-runner doesn’t have that percentage of the vote, the candidate with the fewest votes that round drops off the ballot, and those who ranked that candidate first will have their votes go to their second choice. The process continues until a candidate has more than 50 percent of the vote.
The state’s special House race election will be the only race with ranked-choice voting on Tuesday, but it will provide a preview of how other candidates running in races such as the state’s Senate election will do in November.
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ONE candidate, ONE vote, what's so fucking hard to understand??? Our voting system is so fucked up it will take a miracle to fix it.
Thanks you for stating this.
The problem is that system forces us into a two-party system, and also incentivizes voting against your non-preferred candidate. A true fair voting system is mathematically impossible though, it's been proven (arrow's impossibility theorem) .There will always be an imbalance somewhere.
I personally like Alaska's new structure as it will allow libertarians to gain power which is virtually impossible at the moment.