What is ranked choice voting?

This article is a great overview.

What’s happening in my state?

The same article lists some things, and Wikipedia has more details.

Here’s what on the ballot this year:

  • Alaska is voting to repeal RCV
  • Arizona is voting on a proposition for non-partisan primaries and RCV
  • Colorado is voting on using RCV
  • District of Columbia is voting on using RCV
  • Idaho is voting on using RCV
  • Missouri is voting on banning RCV altogether
  • Montana is voting on a proposition for non-partisan primaries
  • Nevada is voting on using RCV for federal and state elections
  • Oregon is voting on using RCV for federal and state elections
  • South Dakota is voting on non-partisan top 2 primaries
  • Texas has a group working on ranked choice voting

Register to vote, check your registration, make sure you’re in a position to fix voting. It’s important. It’s not as far away as you think.

  • howrar@lemmy.ca
    6·
    2 months ago

    Missouri is voting on banning RCV altogether

    What? How is banning it any different from not implementing it in the first place? It’s not like people can go to the ballots and make a ranked choice vote and have it count as such.

    • PhilipTheBucketOPMAEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      People in one city could use it for city council. That’s where it got started in some places. They tried it, people loved it, and it grew. If it’s banned statewide they can’t do that.

      The Republicans, as they do, are trying to prove they’re the party of small government by running everything and telling everyone what they can and can’t do.