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.
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (90)
sorted by:
Yea my first instinct is that this is overcomplicating something simple like voting for people, and introducing all sorts of vulnerabilities and loopholes.
We would need to test and study the Condorcet method in sociological experiments to see how the math and philosophy actually hit the road with the rubber, so to speak.
Could be extremely easy to take advantage of if you have the media. Even easier than it is now...