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.

Why Ranked Choice Voting?

Prevents the tyranny of the middle
Encourages diversity of candidates
Discourages negative campaigning
Provides more choice for voters
Saves money by avoiding runoff elections

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[–] threelonmusketeers 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

“It is confusing. And many, many ballots are discarded; not because people chose not to vote, it’s because they didn’t fill them out correctly,” Luna said of ranked-choice voting.

How is it confusing? You either rank your candidates 1-2-3-4-5, or you put an X beside your favourite and call it a day. Both ballots can (and should) be equally valid ballots in an instant run-off election. I'd love to see some hard data on how many spoiled ballots there actually are.