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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It's not? You're not required to put any more names on the ballot than the first one
That's exactly my point - a voter is not "required" to but...I know people that thought they needed to literally rank EVERY candidate on the ballot whether they supported them or not, thereby giving a vote to candidates they did not support because they thought they had to. Ranked choice is deliberately confusing so people cant understand the process and thereby question the results. One voter - one vote - how friggin hard is that to understand?