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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.

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Ruling expected soon to decide whether Alaskans can vote to repeal ranked-choice voting (alaskawatchman.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't even sound like you are required to rank all the candidates, so if you want to blindly vote for one person, this doesn't seem to stop you.

Yeah, a good RCV system should allow apathetic voters to put an X beside their favourite candidate and call it a day, just as if it were a FPTP ballot. This is a non-issue.

[โ€“] Red_October 3 points 3 months ago

And that is indeed how the system works in Alaska. You explicitly do not have to rank everyone, and can just pick a single candidate if you want.