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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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The word isn't out on it yet. It's simultaneously central to how everything works, and arcane.
This needs to be required viewing for everybody:
Https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo
I mean it doesn't matter now, but it's still good to have it out there. In an archival sense, at least. Aliens, this video is something the voting public writ large did not understand, and that's part of how this all happened.
Don’t hit me with this in the middle of the day, when I haven’t prepared for it.
Hopefully they meant alas