{"id":102477,"date":"2022-09-29T01:43:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T01:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=102477"},"modified":"2022-09-29T01:43:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T01:43:35","slug":"ranked-choice-voting-might-be-virginias-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=102477","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ranked-choice voting might be Virginia\u2019s future&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/09\/26\/virginia-ranked-choice-voting-future\/\" target=\"_blank\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;Imagine that instead of settling for one candidate in an election \u2014 perhaps the lesser of evils \u2014 you could rank multiple candidates according to your preference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s called \u201cranked-choice voting\u201d (RCV), and it is slowly gaining traction as an alternative way to conduct elections.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Ranked-choice_voting_(RCV)#Background\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Some states<\/a>\u00a0are making limited use of it, including Maryland and Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fairvote.org\/our-reforms\/ranked-choice-voting-information\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Takoma Park<\/a>&nbsp;has used RCV for 15 years. In Virginia, the 2020 General Assembly approved a pilot program allowing its use for local elections, though no locality has yet adopted it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In traditional voting, voters choose just one candidate. In most states, including Maryland and Virginia, a candidate can prevail with a simple plurality. Other states require a majority of votes to win, and if no candidate tops the 50 percent threshold, the top two vote-getters meet again weeks later in a \u201crunoff\u201d election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In ranked-choice balloting, also known as \u201cinstant-runoff voting,\u201d if no candidate wins a majority of first-choice votes in the initial round of counting, the candidate with the fewest first-choice votes is eliminated. Candidates who were second choices to the eliminated candidate are then apportioned to the remaining candidates and the results are retabulated. The process is repeated until one candidate achieves a majority.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;Imagine that instead of settling for one candidate in an election \u2014 perhaps the lesser of evils \u2014 you could rank multiple candidates according to your preference. It\u2019s called \u201cranked-choice voting\u201d (RCV), and it is slowly gaining traction as an alternative way to conduct elections.\u00a0Some states\u00a0are making limited use of it, including Maryland and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102478,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102477\/revisions\/102478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}