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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It’s nearly unanimous: The political elite don’t like ranked-choice voting (thenevadaindependent.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Here you go, here's an olive branch to the "both sides" people. It sounds like, in Nevada, you are correct.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Last time it was this bad, the 17th Amendment was added. Sure would be nice if they could think of a new amendment to address the modern take on the problem. It's hard enough for the idiots in congress to pass basic money bills, so I don't really expect anything to happen. I hope I'm surprised.