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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Maine's 2nd Congressional District race will go to ranked choice voting tabulation, officials say (www.wmtw.com)

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If I'm honest, it sounds like a mess. More and more, I'm thinking that STAR is a better system.

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

As a Mainer - STAR would be preferable but if this gets folks in the state to stop trying to kill progressive voting systems entirely then I'm fine with it. I'd rather get them on board and then work to improve on it than having the same fight year after year