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To: Chickensoup

What is ranked-choice voting?


9 posted on 09/06/2019 3:07:33 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: maxwellsmart_agent
Here's the explanation from the article

The ranked-choice process allows voters to rank contenders in races with three or more candidates in order of preference. If no one wins a majority after the first tally, election officials eliminate the last-place finisher from contention and redistribute that candidate’s votes based each voter’s second-choice ranking.(?)

This process continues – with non-viable candidates being eliminated from the bottom up and their votes reallocated – until someone hits the threshold of 50 percent plus one vote. And that person is the winner.

Perhaps it will make more sense to you than it does me.

11 posted on 09/06/2019 4:09:17 PM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: maxwellsmart_agent

“What is ranked-choice voting?”

A very bad idea. We lost a republican congressional seat in Maine last year due to this crap.


12 posted on 09/06/2019 4:47:45 PM PDT by Andy'smom (Proud member of the basket of deplorables)
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To: maxwellsmart_agent

Ranked Choice is fraud.

It counts votes not cast.


20 posted on 09/06/2019 5:40:32 PM PDT by TheNext (Leader of the Happy People of the World)
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