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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One way to gain traction on climate policies? Ranked-choice voting (prismreports.org)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Preferential Voting is only part of the solution. The second and third parts are Compulsory Voting (to ensure that everyone has access to democracy) and Education.

Here in Australia, we have a Preferential Ballot and Compulsory Voting. Election day is on a Saturday and there are readily available options for those who are indisposed on Election Day.

What we don’t have is an educated Voter base. A lot of people still feel that if they vote for a minor party first, they throw away their vote, simply because that is what imported media is inferring.

Our AEC needs to have an advertising campaign extolling the benefits of preferential voting, and the populace needs to understand that there are no downsides, except a few extra seconds of thought to fill out your ballot. Instead, the education comes in the form of “How-To-Vote” cards, published by the major parties, completely missing the point of a preferential ballot.