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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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.