Don't Vote for Just One: Ranked Choice Voting Is Gaining Ground

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But in Washington state, voters in Clark and San Juan counties rejected ballot initiatives that would have adopted ranked choice voting for county elections.“We should be finding ways to continue our progress, not pushing a rushed constitutional change that would make our system more confusing, error-prone and exclusionary,” Sisolak said in a statement over the summer to Politico.Indeed, exit polling conducted for pro-ranked choice voting group Alaskans for Better Elections during the state’s August election showed 85% of voters found the system “simple.” While campaigning for the ballot measure, Houghton set up tables at county fairs and asked passersby to rank their favorite fair foods.Ranked-Choice Voting Gains Momentum Nationwide Ranked-Choice Voting Gains Momentum Nationwide New York City’s June mayoral primary will be the largest test for the voting method.“When voters in one location start using it for some elections, they want to expand it for more elections,” she said, “and neighboring cities want it as well.” The Georgia U.S. Senate runoff between Democrat Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker could have been avoided with a ranked choice election, Otis noted."

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