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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Ranked choice needs to be banned. When my state adopted it, thank you dems, I selected my first choice straight down the ticket. Folks that don’t select a second choice ends up not having their vote counted if ranked choice is applicable. It’s just another way for the corrupt to steal an election.
If your argument is that it makes cheating easier, I don't follow your logic at all.
If they're already cheating now, what disadvantage is there to using a system which allows people to vote for the better candidates without the added disadvantage of, "throwing their vote away?"
Obfuscation, it makes it easier to hide riggings in a system no one understands.
A ranked system is incredibly easy to understand, and again, they're already rigging it and fully getting away with it, so what is the argued benefit?