How does ranked choice voting work?
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You and your friends are trying to decide which movie to see.
Everybody calls out their first choice. If there’s no clear winner, then whichever movie got the least votes gets ruled out. But we’re looking for a movie which will make everyone at least a little bit happy, so we ask the people who voted for that movie what their second choice would be. We add their 2nd-pick votes to the existing counts for whichever movies they say, and then we check again to see if there’s a clear winner. And we keep going until there is a clear winner.
Except, of course, we ask you to make your second pick, third pick, etc at the same time as your first pick.
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