Captdon
06-15-2018, 07:37 PM
From 538.com:
Most elections in the U.S. are what we call “first past the post (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting)” — that is, you vote for one person, and the candidate with the most votes wins, even if it’s not with a majority. Not so with ranked-choice voting, also called instant-runoff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting) or preferential voting (https://www.sbs.com.au/news/explainer-what-is-preferential-voting). In races with more than two candidates,1 (https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/maine-is-trying-out-a-new-way-to-run-elections-but-will-it-survive-the-night/#fn-1)Maine’s new ballots ask voters to rank candidates from their first to last choice. If no candidate receives a majority of first-place votes, the candidate with the fewest first-place votes is eliminated, and his or her supporters are redistributed among the remaining candidates based on whom they ranked second. If still no candidate has a majority, the candidate with the next-fewest first-place votes is eliminated, and so on until someone wins 50 percent plus one vote.
Whatever happened to SCOTUS saying one man, one vote. I remember an election when this ruling came out and we voted for all legislature candidates. It was one vote for someone until we used all our votes.
Most elections in the U.S. are what we call “first past the post (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting)” — that is, you vote for one person, and the candidate with the most votes wins, even if it’s not with a majority. Not so with ranked-choice voting, also called instant-runoff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting) or preferential voting (https://www.sbs.com.au/news/explainer-what-is-preferential-voting). In races with more than two candidates,1 (https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/maine-is-trying-out-a-new-way-to-run-elections-but-will-it-survive-the-night/#fn-1)Maine’s new ballots ask voters to rank candidates from their first to last choice. If no candidate receives a majority of first-place votes, the candidate with the fewest first-place votes is eliminated, and his or her supporters are redistributed among the remaining candidates based on whom they ranked second. If still no candidate has a majority, the candidate with the next-fewest first-place votes is eliminated, and so on until someone wins 50 percent plus one vote.
Whatever happened to SCOTUS saying one man, one vote. I remember an election when this ruling came out and we voted for all legislature candidates. It was one vote for someone until we used all our votes.