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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Oregon will vote on Ranked Choice Voting in this year's election (ktvz.com)

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[–] BananaTrifleViolin 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

OP didn't say anything about third party candidates? You make some good points but not really related to what OP said.

They said the changes are more likely to be adopted by democrat states before republican states. That does have a lot of potential implications, including the ones raised but supporting the change is not the same as supporting or considering all the potential implications.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

What do you believe ranked choice voting is?

Unless I've missed something very fundamental, RCV is not related to what electoral votes go up to the federal election unless third party candidates are involved. A ranked choice election between 2 candidates is the same as a FPTP election.

Right? I feel like I'm not the one missing something here.

democrat states

Ooooh

Okay, it makes a little more sense now why you and the parent comment might be inducing a pointless and confusing argument here, and a reason why not to do RCV, based on logic that doesn't hold up...

IDK, tell me if I've missed something, but I think I just realized what's going on.