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Ranked-choice voting faces its biggest test yet in New York City - Vox
Instead of Voting for One Candidate, What if New Yorkers Picked Their Top 5? - The New York Times
Opinion | 5 Ballot Proposals for New York - The New York Times
This Tuesday, 2019 November 5, New York City voters will be voting on a ballot proposition for implementing ranked-choice voting, also known as alternative voting or preference voting.
Instead of voting for a single candidate for each city office, they will be voting for five candidates, giving their preference for each: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th.
The votes will be counted up using instant runoff or sequential runoff. In each round, if a candidate gets a majority of top-preference votes, then that candidate wins. Otherwise, the one with the fewest top-preference votes is dropped from the count and the ballots recounted while ignoring that candidate. DemoChoice Polls uses instant-runoff vote counting, and an example of it is in DemoChoice Results - Favorite Ice Cream I myself have implemented that and several other preference-vote-counting algorithms in GitHub - lkpetrich/Preference-Voting: For counting votes in preference voting. Implements a large number of algorithms..
Ranked-choice voting in the United States - it is now used in some cities, like Minneapolis MN, San Francisco CA, and Oakland CA. It is now also used in the state of Maine.
Though RCV is somewhat complicated, it is not very difficult to understand, and it can make primaries unnecessary. It can also improve the tone of campaigning, since one has less incentive to make enemies in it. Some candidates even make alliances with each other: if you vote for me, then vote for my friends also.
If New York City adopts it, that will be especially significant, since NYC is a very prominent city, and what happens in it is more likely to become widely-known than in most other US cities.
Instead of Voting for One Candidate, What if New Yorkers Picked Their Top 5? - The New York Times
Opinion | 5 Ballot Proposals for New York - The New York Times
This Tuesday, 2019 November 5, New York City voters will be voting on a ballot proposition for implementing ranked-choice voting, also known as alternative voting or preference voting.
Instead of voting for a single candidate for each city office, they will be voting for five candidates, giving their preference for each: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th.
The votes will be counted up using instant runoff or sequential runoff. In each round, if a candidate gets a majority of top-preference votes, then that candidate wins. Otherwise, the one with the fewest top-preference votes is dropped from the count and the ballots recounted while ignoring that candidate. DemoChoice Polls uses instant-runoff vote counting, and an example of it is in DemoChoice Results - Favorite Ice Cream I myself have implemented that and several other preference-vote-counting algorithms in GitHub - lkpetrich/Preference-Voting: For counting votes in preference voting. Implements a large number of algorithms..
Ranked-choice voting in the United States - it is now used in some cities, like Minneapolis MN, San Francisco CA, and Oakland CA. It is now also used in the state of Maine.Though RCV is somewhat complicated, it is not very difficult to understand, and it can make primaries unnecessary. It can also improve the tone of campaigning, since one has less incentive to make enemies in it. Some candidates even make alliances with each other: if you vote for me, then vote for my friends also.
If New York City adopts it, that will be especially significant, since NYC is a very prominent city, and what happens in it is more likely to become widely-known than in most other US cities.
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