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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I still think ranked choice is a rigged game - one voter, one vote is the only honest election method - prove me wrong.
"One voter, one vote" is how we found ourselves in a two-party system. Having more than two options is a good thing.
You have the option to vote for a third party candidate in the one voter, one vote system so your argument falls flat right there. You must like easily corrupted systems. If it's "new" and it's being pushed by the democrats and RINOs, it has to be something that further cements their ability to cheat.
Do you have any expectation for your third party choice to win? I would liken that to a protest vote rather than a real vote.
Would you vote for a third party if you didn't like your Republican candidate but despised the Democrat? Wouldn't you like the opportunity to let people see that you would rather have the third party than the R, but are willing to settle? Otherwise it looks like you support the R over the third party.
Actually, I WOULD vote third party if I didn't like either the R or the D if I DID like the third party candidate. Learn some freaking history - there have been political parties in power in the past that no longer exist. Those parties were taken out using the one voter, one vote system. Please explain how that happens if the system is the problem. I'd like the option to have a "None of the candidates" vote box as well so I know if I don't want any of them to represent me, I can make sure none of their election office minions fill in my vote for me. If it is new and being pushed by the dems and RINOS, it is being put into place because it can and will be manipulated to get the cabals preferred person in office.