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Ranked Choice Voting

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Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) is a voting system in which voters rank candidates by preference on their ballots. If a candidate wins a majority of first-preference votes, they are declared the winner. If no candidate wins a majority, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated, and votes for that candidate are redistributed to the remaining candidates, based on the next preference on each ballot. This process continues until one candidate has a majority. Learn more about how it works.

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What is ranked choice voting? What's happening with it in my state? (www.usnews.com)
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What is ranked choice voting?

This article is a great overview.

What's happening in my state?

The same article lists some things, and Wikipedia has more details.

Here's what on the ballot this year:

  • Alaska is voting to repeal RCV
  • Arizona is voting on a proposition for non-partisan primaries and RCV
  • Colorado is voting on using RCV
  • Connecticut is evaluating RCV for legislation in 2025
  • District of Columbia is voting on using RCV
  • Idaho is voting on using RCV
  • Missouri is voting on banning RCV altogether
  • Montana is voting on a proposition for non-partisan primaries
  • Nevada is voting on using RCV for federal and state elections
  • Oregon is voting on using RCV for federal and state elections
  • South Dakota is voting on non-partisan top 2 primaries
  • Texas has a group working on ranked choice voting

Register to vote, check your registration, make sure you're in a position to fix voting. It's important. It's not as far away as you think.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Getting rid of FPTP is a priority, and I'll support just about any reasonable alternative. But I never understood why Ranked Choice was pushed over Approval.

Approval is easier to understand, which fixes the main criticism of Ranked Choice. It's also more immune to the spoiler effect.

[–] timbuck2themoon 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The problem is- the people fighting against rcv will use more bullshit arguments against approval voting too. You make a good point but people will argue in bad faith about anything, just FYI. Not like rcv is rocket science.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

True, the complexity argument is usually given in bad faith. But I've seen even people who advocate RCV get confused about how the rounds work and how this affects the voting strategy.