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Ranked-choice voting goes live in New York City

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On June 23, New York City’s mayoral primaries utilized ranked-choice voting (RCV), a system that interests some Florida municipalities.

With RCV, the voter ranks up to five of the candidates on the ballot, one through five. If no candidate receives over 50 percent of the ballots as a first choice, the candidate receiving the fewest votes is eliminated, and their ballots redistributed to candidates who were marked as the second choice. The process continues, eliminating and reallocating until two candidates remain, and a winner declared.

Florida’s Division of Elections were asked to review RCV for local use.

David Johnson, The OJT 100

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