[rlmorel]

Imagine you have four state representative slots open, and there are six candidates for the slot.

So, the ballot says “Choose four candidates” out of those six, and you fill in the circles of the four you want.

In a non ranked system the top four vote getters get a seat, but in ranked voting where the margin of victory is low (don’t know what that is, maybe less than 1% which isn’t uncommon I believe) they do a vote runoff.

If the top candidate does not beat the second candidate by a given amount, they throw out the person with the lowest number of votes, and give that candidate’s votes to the person who is in second place and recount.

Then they look at the second and the third candidate. If the second didn’t beat the third, they take the votes for the candidate in last place and assign them to the third place candidate.

The process repeats until there are only four candidates left and all four seats have been decided by sufficient amount of votes.

In this state, it is possible that lone Republican is going to be then one getting squeezed out.

Confused? Just imagine the chicanery that will take place with this.

[rlmorel]

Here is what the Massachusetts organization pushing this put out for propaganda: How Ranked Choice Voting works

I am sure they make it sound wonderful and fully bipartisan, benefiting everyone.

[Labyrinthos]

“Then they look at the second and the third candidate. If the second didn’t beat the third, they take the votes for the candidate in last place and assign them to the third place candidate.”

But why would the votes for the last place candidate automatically go to the third-place candidate?