I just saw a post on Alaska and ranked choice voting. I thought I understood it. Now I don’t.
Help please.
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Instead of just voting for one candidate, you rank all the candidates – so you have a first choice, second choice, third choice etc.
Then they start to by tallying the votes only the first choices. If more than 50% of the people picked a certain candidate as their first choice, then this person wins. Otherwise, they take the candidate who received the least number of votes and remove them from the ballot. Everyone who was ranked below them is moved up a rank (so if I picked them as first choice, now my second choice becomes my first).
They tally the votes again. If no candidate won more than 50%, they repeat the process until one candidate does.
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