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Posted by Spider-Pig on Thu Jun 12 12:49:22 2025, in response to Re: Unfucking Believable, posted by mtk52983 on Thu Jun 12 12:01:42 2025. Not quite.You can only rank 5. That’s in NYC, other ranked choice schemes may be different. You can rank fewer than 5, but not more. In the first round, only first choices count, if someone wins more than 50% of the total vote, then the election ends there. If not, the last place candidate is eliminated, and any ballots where the eliminated candidate was ranked first are reallocated to that ballot’s second choice, all other ballots are unaffected. In each subsequent round, the same process is repeated, the last place candidate in each subsequent round is eliminated (due to reallocation, this may be a different candidate than who came second to last in the prior round), with his/her ballots reallocated to that ballot’s highest remaining choice. Only one candidate is eliminated in each round. At any point, if this causes any candidate to gain a majority, then that candidate is then elected. Because ballots can be exhausted, the majority necessary in each round may be less than in the previous rounds, since a candidate need only win a majority of ballots that remain. Ballots where all of the voters choice had since been disqualified are “exhausted” and disregarded in subsequent rounds. The point of this is that it allows voters to choose the candidate they like most without worrying that it’s a waste and someone will win with a mere plurality, where most voters actually preferred someone else. It’s also called “instant runoff”. This is why I can safely vote for someone like Tilson, secure in the knowledge that when the election comes down to Cuomo vs. Mamdani, my vote for Cuomo is there, and not wasted. |
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