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)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 2 points 1 month ago

It seems that most people voted against STAR voting too: https://ballotpedia.org/Results_for_ranked-choice_voting_(RCV)_and_electoral_system_ballot_measures,_2024

It might be more useful to advocate for approval voting, especially since there was a recent Veritasium video that expressed support for it and it seems to meet good criteria.

Regardless, this discussion is in the context of [email protected] so maybe we should focus the discussion on "Ranked Choice Voting".