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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Well it looks like there's no convincing you if you cling to rare exceptions and would cut off your nose to spite your face by letting a D take office instead of the R who you didn't like as much as the third party candidate.
I'll just say that I believe it would greatly benefit third+ parties to have ranked choice voting systems, both by getting them into office realistically, and by exposing how much support they actually have over the mainstream candidates.
Nope - I guess I'm just a dumbass that wants transparency in the election process.
That's because you're a commie.
Ooh someone took an interest in my post history!
How do you feel about the ranked choice system?
So I called you a commie and you think it's because I took an interest in your post history? LOL
No, I thought you took an interest in my post history because you're replying to a week old comment..