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What's the Deal: Ranked Choice Voting

By:: Eli Yudin

June 19, 2021

What's the Deal: Ranked Choice Voting

What's The Deal is back to provide the pop-up book equivalent of reading a bunch of articles that make your brain hurt. This week, we cover ranked choice voting.

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WHAT'S THE DEAL: RANKED CHOICE VOTING What's the Difference? CRACKED .COM Ranked choice voting is an alternative to traditional voting (where one selection is made) that allows voters to choose multiple candidates, and rank them in order of their preference.

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WHAT'S THE DEAL: RANKED CHOICE VOTING How Does It Work? Instructions to Voters Governor To cho vote, fill in the oval like this Choice Choice Choice 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Choice To rank your candidate choices, fill Fredette, Kenneth Wade Newport in the oval: Mason, Garrett Paul Lisbon In the 1st column for your 1st Mayhew, Mary C choice candidate. China Moody, Shawn H. 0 Gorham In the 2nd column for your 2nd candidate, Write-in choice and so on. Continue until you have ranked as many or as few candidates as you like. GRACKED.COM As far as the ballot, pretty much how you'd expect.

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WHAT'S THE DEAL: RANKED CHOICE VOTING I Have To Choose 5? Moody, Sha Gorham In the 2nd column for your 2nd Write-in choice candidate, Continue until you have ranked as many or as few candidates as you like. them one oval for each candidate or column. CRACKED.CO candidate write Don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of ird-party candidates? You can rank as few as you like. That way you don't end up accidentally saying some guy who believes in jew space lasers is your 3rd favorite

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WHAT'S THE DEAL: RANKED CHOICE VOTING How Do They Count This ****? JOO GRACKED.COM Like a 7th grade science fair project, it might be confusing to look at, but the basic ideas are fairly simple. At first, every ballot is counted as a vote for their #1 candidate. — Source: Ballotpedia

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WHAT'S THE DEAL: RANKED CHOICE VOTING That... Sounds The Same. their next-ranked choice last place candidate's votes GRACKED.CO Hold on: Once this initial tally is recorded, the lowest performer is removed from the race, and those ballots move to their 2nd choice selection, and retallied. This is repeated, eliminating the lowest performer, until someone hits 50%. — Source: Ballotpedia

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WHAT'S THE DEAL: RANKED CHOICE VOTING So... Why Bother? I'm expressing myself without getting screamed at on twitter! CRACKED.CO Ever been told you're wasting your vote? Ranked voting allows you to vote your conscience guilt-free. E.g. you could vote for completely hypothetical candidate Dr. Bill Stein without hurting other candidates. — Source: New York Times

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WHAT'S THE DEAL: RANKED CHOICE VOTING That Sounds Specific. CRACKED.COM Well, yeah. But there's broader reasons as well: ranked choice voting also helps if you're choosing between two similarly polling candidates, and it eliminates the cost and mess of run-offs (like lower turnout.) — Source: Quartz

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WHAT'S THE DEAL: RANKED CHOICE VOTING Will We See More Of It? Ralph Nader for Presid + WV org CRACKED COM That remains to be seen. There's plenty of advantages to ranked choice voting. However, bringing up voting reform in US politics usually goes about as well as bringing up Episode 1 to Star Wars fans.

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