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Ranked-choice voting adopted in New York City, along with other ballot measures
New York City will move to a system of ranked-choice voting, shaking up the way its elections are run after voters approved a ballot question to make the change.
The city will be by far the biggest place in the U.S. to put the new way of voting to the test, tripling the number of people around the country who use it.
A ballot question proposing the shift for New York primaries and special elections was approved Tuesday by a margin of nearly 3-1. It's now set to be in effect for New York's elections for mayor, City Council and other offices in 2021.
Under the system, voters will rank up to five candidates in order of preference, instead of casting a ballot for just one. If no candidate gets a majority of the vote, the last place candidate is eliminated and their votes are parceled out to the voter's second choice, a computerized process that continues until one candidate has a majority and is declared the winner.
Ranked-choice voting is now in use or approved in 18 other cities around the country, including San Francisco, Minneapolis and Cambridge. The state of Maine also uses it. Backers say the system discourages negative campaigning, and forces candidates to reach out to more voters rather than relying on a narrow base. It's also designed to allow voters to pick their true favorite, without worrying about throwing away a vote on someone who can't win.
Previously: Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections
Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Thursday November 07 2019, @01:15PM
This is pretty cool, kindof surprised to hear this democratic socialist reform but I'll take it. Sadly at the same time national socialistic copyright, ID Card and restrictions of speech lockdowns are moving ahead at a very rapid pace.
It won't matter how many choices you get on the ballot if everything you do that might affect the profits of a business negatively is made illegal. The right to boycott is actually being taken away, meaning you literally are being forced to buy products and the 'free market' talk we have heard for 50-100 years is negated by fiat, by the same people who swear they want a free market.
Democratic Socialism and National Socialism are, like, neck and neck at the moment in the United States and it is making everybody on the entire fucking planet very nervous.