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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Ranked choice voting repeal now trailing by 45 votes ahead of final Alaska ballot count and tabulation Wednesday (www.adn.com)

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[–] threelonmusketeers 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why is it so close?

[+] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

I've also seen people who speak out very strongly against IRV on the grounds that they prefer other electoral systems like STAR or approval voting. IMO those are just worse systems than IRV, but I also think that if you do prefer them but campaign against IRV because of a vain hope to arrive at something you consider better in the future, you're letting the perfect be the enemy of the good and undermining genuine democratic change.

[–] threelonmusketeers 2 points 11 hours ago

The people who vote against ranked choice are either too stupid to learn what it is and how it would objectively be better for democracy, people who are smart enough to know how it works and don't support it because it will be bad for their political party, or people who were told what to vote for by an authority figure

"People are stupid" is rarely the best explanation. I'm just surprised that it was so close to 50%. Voting reform isn't usually such a wedge issue.