Re:What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?
by jrochkind1 on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @09:57PM
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> In this US, you would rarely need to do any additional research.
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> There are almost always only 2 choices - the Democratic candidate and the Republican candidate.
In NY, what's being discussed in the OP, the ranked choice system is being used only for the primaries. Whoever wins the Democratic party will certainly win the mayoral general election -- but ranked choice voting isn't being used there anyway.
So what you're describing isn't actually the context of ranked choice voting in this election.
In Chicago, another city where the Democrats always win, they actually have, since 1999, non-partisan primaries. Just one primary, for all parties, top two candidates go on to the general election -- so the general election can be between two generals. It would be interesting to see instead a single ranked-choice election, no primary at all.
In NY, what's being discussed in the OP, the ranked choice system is being used only for the primaries. Whoever wins the Democratic party will certainly win the mayoral general election -- but ranked choice voting isn't being used there anyway.
So what you're describing isn't actually the context of ranked choice voting in this election.
In Chicago, another city where the Democrats always win, they actually have, since 1999, non-partisan primaries. Just one primary, for all parties, top two candidates go on to the general election -- so the general election can be between two generals. It would be interesting to see instead a single ranked-choice election, no primary at all.