Re:What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?
by samoube on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @09:31PM
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Here’s a sample ballot from today’s primary in Brooklyn. Voting was for 7 offices, 5 of which were RCV.
https://nyc-static.electionhub.com/sampleballots/384760/12/2...
Re:What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?
by tialaramex on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @08:26AM
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Yeah :/ that does seem excessive. Delegates to the Judicial Convention in particular don't look to me to have a role that justifies expecting citizens to choose eleven of them each cycle.
Re:What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?
by Talanes on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @02:38PM
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I believe those, in particular, are part of the party infrastructure, and just on there because it's a Democratic Party Primary ballot.
We elect some form of party-apparatus delegates here in California too, though the Democratic Party here holds those elections separately and privately.
The only one I've ever been actively aware was happening was because I was dating someone working for a prominent state politician, and got dragged along to vote for people I'd never heard of in some park.
Can you say how many such choices "etcetera" was eliding here? And if possible if there were roles where you had no idea about any of the candidates beyond stuff like incumbency ? I can see New York City is too big to make just having a Mayor on the ballot enough to properly establish democratically elected local government, but in general it seems Americans elect way too many roles.