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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Ranked choice voting repeal now trailing by 45 votes ahead of final Alaska ballot count and tabulation Wednesday (www.adn.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I've also seen people who speak out very strongly against IRV on the grounds that they prefer other electoral systems like STAR or approval voting. IMO those are just worse systems than IRV, but I also think that if you do prefer them but campaign against IRV because of a vain hope to arrive at something you consider better in the future, you're letting the perfect be the enemy of the good and undermining genuine democratic change.