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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We have ranked choice in my town in NM. People dont understand it and I believe that is by design. I talked to friends and relatives and they literally vote every candidate whether they support them or not. I try to explain to them, if your first, second, third,etc. does not make it then you are voting potentially for someone that you DON'T want to win. It's a total scam to keep incumbents in office. I only vote for my first choice then cross out the other candidates with a pen - not sure if that does any good but at least I feel like I tried. We had ten freaking people running for mayor and the ballot did not even show party affiliation.