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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FFS! Election Day is ONE day. Paper ballots only. ID is ABSOLUTELY required. The candidate you vote for gets your vote, no second choice. This is as black and white as the ballots! No early voting, no mail in voting, no EXCUSES.
Show up to your polling location, show a photo ID to prove you are a legal, voting citizen, get a paper ballot (bring your own pen), vote and go home. They should be able to call the race that evening. There is no "stop counting" in elections. We all saw it happen live on tv. The biggest fraud ever.