Questions tagged [ranked-choice-voting]
Ranked choice voting (RCV), also known as instant runoff voting (IRV), in an election system that allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference. Voters have the option to rank candidates in order of preference: first, second, third and so forth. Ballots that do not help voters’ top choices win count for their next choice.
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What arguments are there against ranked-choice voting?
In America, most elections are based on first-past-the-post voting, where whoever gets a plurality of the votes wins. For instance if candidate A gets 40% of the vote and each of candidates B and C ...
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Why does ranked-choice voting give such high preference to the second choice of the least-favored candidate's voters?
Ranked choice voting is in the news lately because of the big mess New York City has made of implementing it in its Democratic primaries for the mayoral race. But in the talk about how it works, one ...
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How will New York City physically implement the ranked choice voting algorithm with thousands of unique mayoral votings possible?
Politico's New Yorkers pick a new mayor after chaotic, historic primary begins:
NEW YORK — Polls have closed in New York City’s first ever ranked-choice election and, while the die has been cast, ...
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Who is the Condorcet winner of NYC's 2021 mayoral Democratic primary?
The 2021 mayoral primary in New York City was done using Instant Runoff Voting ("Ranked Choice Voting"). This system does not necessarily elect the Condorcet winner, if one exists. (The ...
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Did the 2022 Alaska congressional special election have a Condorcet winner, who was not elected?
Does anyone know if Begich may have been the Condorcet winner? Nic Tideman emailed me a few days ago, asking me this question.
I sure as hell do not know unless we can get the records of the ...
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New York's ranked choice voting, dealing with "a tie at the bottom"
I guess I have understood the mechanism of ranked choice voting, except for one detail: what happens if two candidates have exactly the same least number of first choices and the same exact numbers of ...
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Instant runoff voting in US presidential elections
User Thunderforge recently remarked: (emphasis mine)
Of interest, Maine approved a ballot measure for Instant Runoff Voting for U.S. Senate, Congress, Governor, State Senate, and State ...
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Ranked choice voting: Can a candidate who got dropped in early round come back in later rounds?
Location: Any country or state that uses RCV. One that has used it for a while and worked out the kinks would be preferable. Edit for clarity: I am talking about the “instant runoff” kind of RCV in a ...
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Why did Alaska introduce ranked voting for the general election but not for the primary?
As explained in How did Alaska "change its primary system recently" and was it "to dilute the possibility of a conservative or Trump-inspired challenger"?:
Alaska Ballot Measure 2 ...
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Is there a ranked voting variant that prevents vote selling and identification?
As acknowledged also on Wikipedia, one of the drawbacks of ranked choice voting is that "it is likely that many preference voting patterns will be unique to individual voters, which could allow ...
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Difference between RCV and STV
My question is about de difference between RCV and STV.
If I am correct they are both voting systems where you are selecting multiple candidates and where the candidate with the lowest amount of votes ...
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What is the significance of the non-dictatorship principle in Arrow's theorem, and does this example fit the definition of a dictator? [duplicate]
Arrow's non-dictatorship principle states that "no single voter possesses the power to always determine the group's preference."
I am unsure if I am missing some nuance from this definition, ...
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In Ranked-choice voting, are exhausted ballots removed from the total vote count for subsequent rounds?
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Oregon will be voting on the use of Ranked-choice voting in 2024, and I am preparing a presentation for interested local community groups to demonstrate how the process will operate....
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any USA polling on what if presidential/congressional election were ranked-choice voting
A lot of people who are dissatisfied with the American political system have suggested ranked-choice voting.
I cannot find any polling where the people are asked, "What if the presidential or ...
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What are the pros and cons of ranked-choice voting compared to first-past-the-post voting?
What are the pros and cons of ranked-choice voting (RCV) compared to first-past-the-post voting (FPTP), supported by research?
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I prefer answers supported by evidence, with data from actual ...
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Would ranked choice voting force single issue voters to vote for more than one candidate or not be counted? [closed]
I am running for Senate in NJ in 2024 and I believe my voting bloc is merely a plural majority of all eligible voters but maybe not a majority (and probably not current voters, btw).
If this is the ...
