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Mark your choices for governor
Rank your preferences: 1st Choice2nd Choice3rd Choice
The candidate you fear most
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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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As a friend of FairVote Minnesota, you likely already know that Ranked Choice Voting is a simple, proven reform – a fairer, smarter, cleaner, cheaper way to vote. The way we elect our policymaker

“Ranked Choice Voting is all about engaging more voters and making their vote truly count. We can always improve our elections to make them work better.”

Rebecca Otto, State Auditor