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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Ranked choice let's you vote for a third party candidate and still express a preference between the Republican and democratic candidate.
The issue is that a well funded backer can increase turnout for their side by running two similar candidates, and then having those candidates tell their supporters to vote for the other candidate as a second choice. How much would this help? Not sure. Look up Condorcet voting for some of the mathematical issues with this type of voting.
Excellent. Can you provide the link for Condorcet voting so that I may get familiar? It sounds interesting.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method
Thanks, yea I saw this too. I thought maybe you had some 'rich' stuff.
Naw. This used to be debated ad nauseum on some boards I was on in the 00s. It would weaken both parties if widely adopted. Republicans have to be careful though because they are repeatedly caught flatfooted with this kind of stuff. Like when the Democrats changed California to allow for ballot harvesting, and the entire Republican Congressional delegation was voted out.
The original system was only 2 candidates, and the votes stayed with the second if the first didn't win.
It was the original method of breaking a two party system, and the first round worked and worked well.
The big problem, like everything else, a couple tweaks and it becomes ranked choice. A completely manipulative, corrupt system that is easily broken.