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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I think you are speaking to a disinformation person, who is deliberately introducing some nonsense-logic into the equation as a reason not to use RCV, in the hopes of fooling some people into not wanting to do it because they don't want to hurt the Democrats.

I thought they were just confused about proportional elector distribution vs ranked choice, too, up until just a second ago, and then it all made sense. They're still blandly doubling down on their misinterpretation and ignoring what you're saying and just repeating the original message, too.