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 reason I dislike RCV is because it forces the vote to be centralized. There's no way to accumulate precinct level totals. And we all know centralization paves the way for cheating. It's also really hard to do a hand count. The only solution for our election problems that I see is decentralization and avoidance of reliance on electronics.