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New York City Voters Just Adopted Ranked-Choice Voting in Elections. Here's How It Works
TIME via Yahoo! News ^ | November 6, 2019 | by Anna Purna Kambhampaty

Posted on 11/07/2019 9:07:55 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

New York City voted on Tuesday to change the way it determines election winners. With approval from more than 73% of voters, the Big Apple joins Maine and countries including Australia and New Zealand in adopting what’s known as ranked-choice voting.

This popular electoral system allows voters to rank candidates by preference, meaning they can submit ballots that list not only their first-choice candidate for a position, but also their second, third and so on.

Ranked-choice voting advocates, including Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, who has championed it as a key policy initiative, say it could help prevent evermore polarized election campaigns, increase the number of women and minority candidates running for office, and reduce negative campaigning. Critics say that the new system could make elections much more complicated for voters and be abused by parties trying to game the system.

In addition to Maine, which has adopted the system statewide, several states are experimenting with ranked-choice voting. Alaska, Hawaii, Kansas, and Wyoming plan to use ranked-choice for voters in the 2020 Democratic primaries, and Nevada plans to use it for early voters in their 2020 Democratic caucuses, according to FairVote, a nonpartisan group that advocates for election reform.

“We are really settling on ranked-choice voting as the most promising reform to democratize and depolarize our politics,” says Larry Diamond, the former director of Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. “I think it’s not only here to stay but that it’s gaining support across the country.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bluezones; election2020; ny2020; nyc; rankedchoicevoting
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“This popular electoral system ...”


So a method used by one of the 50 states, and now by a US city is “popular”. Reminds me a little of how a minority party in Russia named itself “Bolshevik”—majority; and named the majority party “Menshevik”—minority.


21 posted on 11/07/2019 9:27:47 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: TexasFreeper2009

The process really shouldn’t be streamlined as it’s just a way for socialists to game the system by going for being second choices and then getting elected by splitting majority votes and getting in as as second and third choices. This happens all the times in places like Australia that regularly lists 25 candidates from ridiculous parties that end up diluting conservative votes. One person should have one vote - not a preference sheet and if need be we have a run-off. It might work in a parliamentary system but not in ours.


22 posted on 11/07/2019 9:28:01 AM PST by JMS
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Correct


23 posted on 11/07/2019 9:28:06 AM PST by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

So if your election looks like this:

Democrat: 49%
Republican: 46%
Conservative: 3%
Libertarian: 1%

In today’s paradigm the Democrat would win.

In ranked choice the Conservative and Libertarian voters would have selected the Republicans as their second choice. Hence all of those votes would swing to the Rep, giving him the win.


24 posted on 11/07/2019 9:28:56 AM PST by FewsOrange
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is another method for Democrats to cheat. Republicans mark their candidate in column 1 and return their ballot. The Democratic polling agents then fill in box 2, 3, etc for their candidates on the Republican’s form.


25 posted on 11/07/2019 9:29:30 AM PST by Mozzafiato
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

so they will get to choose between two commie/nazi-style far far leftist D candidates every election

tweedledee and tweedledumb

just like in the once-great state of Californication

a permanent far leftist LOCK on public offices, governmental power

Soroz’s wet dream come true.


26 posted on 11/07/2019 9:31:43 AM PST by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not , born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What the article does not mention is that this is only for primaries not the general election.


27 posted on 11/07/2019 9:32:06 AM PST by FewsOrange
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To: DoughtyOne
Here in California we don’t have ranked choice, but it does wind up that way in one sense.

San Francisco has ranked choice in their elections.

28 posted on 11/07/2019 9:32:39 AM PST by Mozzafiato
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Unconstitutional - it violates one man, one vote.

Needs to be challenged in the Supreme Court.

Of course, Roberts will see it the democrat way.


29 posted on 11/07/2019 9:34:15 AM PST by oldbill
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To: oldbill

“Unconstitutional - it violates one man, one vote.”

Nonsense


30 posted on 11/07/2019 9:35:07 AM PST by FewsOrange
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This has positive and negative- I think eliminating the last place candidates and voting again would be better.


31 posted on 11/07/2019 9:36:24 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: FewsOrange

Please don’t post when you don’t know what you are talking about.
Are you an alias for John Roberts?


32 posted on 11/07/2019 9:37:49 AM PST by oldbill
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To: Mozzafiato

I wasn’t aware of that. Thanks for the mention.

These Leftists want to screw with everything.


33 posted on 11/07/2019 9:38:42 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Pledge: "...and to the Democracy for which it stands..." I give up. Use the democRat meme...)
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To: oldbill

“Please don’t post when you don’t know what you are talking about.”

I could say the same about you.

There is absolutely nothing unconstitutional about ranked choice/instant run-off voting.


34 posted on 11/07/2019 9:41:06 AM PST by FewsOrange
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To: gimme1ibertee
Is this even Constitutional??

I would think so, since these rules are set by the states.

35 posted on 11/07/2019 9:41:59 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: socalgop; All

Hard to say.

I saw this in Australia. A real mess.

No one knows the result of the election for days, or weeks.

Recount after recount, because everything changes with each recount.


36 posted on 11/07/2019 9:43:29 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: DoughtyOne
Dennis Prager: "The Left destroys everything it touches."

Why should elections be any different.

37 posted on 11/07/2019 9:43:29 AM PST by glennaro
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Don’t think it matters. Even Indiana is turning blue. Our Indianapolis D mayor won reelection 71-28, the democrats won 6 more seats on the city council four, had been GOP for years, three historically republican towns in suburban Indianapolis went heavily democrat, Columbus is now democrat for the first time in 36 years. I fully expect that next year my district which has been republican since the 70’s will go democrat. Our republican Rep is retiring and the democrats have three young candidates running. Two college educated millennial women and a millennial Gay guy. The republicans are going to run an old 50ish white guy. It won’t be pretty. Hamilton County, which up until 2018 was listed as one of the reddest counties in America is the county all those new democrats got elected in. The change is driven by an influx of young techy types who work for companies like Salesforce and Infosys. They are well paid, college educated, deeply irreligious, mostly white, predominantly female, despise anybody with an R behind their name and solidly progressive. Think AOC with a brain.

The republicans worst nightmare is coming true. The millennials are becoming politically active. They are voting and running for office. And they are not conservative or republican. We my have one more election to win, but by 2024 the good times are over. Demographics and 20+ years of propaganda disguised as education are catching up to us


38 posted on 11/07/2019 9:43:30 AM PST by redangus
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To: glennaro

Won’t get any argument from me.


39 posted on 11/07/2019 9:44:39 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Pledge: "...and to the Democracy for which it stands..." I give up. Use the democRat meme...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Throughout history, once the people can vote themselves money from the treasury, the nation is doomed.

We allowed ‘welfare’, and income taxes to pay for it. Nowhere was there taxation without representation in the constitution.


40 posted on 11/07/2019 9:48:27 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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