What is Ranked Choice Voting?
Limited voted choice is bad for democracy. Voters today are presented with fewer and fewer true choices in elections. Because of the top-down effects of winner-take-all elections, “spoiler candidates” are ridiculed and reviled, and voters are forced to choose the lesser of two evils instead of voicing their true preferences. Primaries are poorly attended and produce hyper-polarized general elections.
Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) allows voters the option to rank candidates in order of preference: one, two, three, and so forth. If your vote cannot help your top choice win, your vote counts for your next choice. The winner of the election must win by 50% plus one vote, so is ensured to have majority support among the electorate.
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Benefits of Ranked Choice Voting
- Promotes Representative Outcomes and Majority Rule
- Discourages Overly Negative Campaigning
- Saves Money When Replacing Preliminaries or Runoffs
- Promotes diversity of political viewpoint, candidate background and demographics
- Minimizes Strategic Voting
