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 needs to be banned. When my state adopted it, thank you dems, I selected my first choice straight down the ticket. Folks that don’t select a second choice ends up not having their vote counted if ranked choice is applicable. It’s just another way for the corrupt to steal an election.
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.