About Ranked Choice Voting
Ranked Choice Voting allows voters to rank candidates on the ballot according to their preference - 1st choice, 2nd choice, 3rd choice, etc. Voters cast their vote for their favorite candidate knowing that if he or she doesn't gather enough votes to win, their vote will count toward their second choice. In a single-winner election, votes cast for the least popular candidate are not "wasted", but rather redistributed to more popular candidates, based on the voters' second choices, until one candidate wins with a majority of votes.
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"With Ranked Choice Voting, we have the opportunity to accomplish the purpose of a two round election system, but get it done in just one ballot. RCV is not only more efficient, it results in more voices and more choices and better representation of all voters."
Rep. Frank Hornstein