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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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.