r/RanktheVote

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Rank the Vote

r/RanktheVote

Rank the Vote is a movement dedicated Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) an electoral system in which voters rank candidates by preference on their ballots. There are multiple forms of ranked-choice voting. This page focuses on the most commonly used form of RCV, sometimes called instant-runoff voting (IRV), and provides some supplemental information on other forms of this electoral system.

Created Jul 2, 2015

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THIS is a FREEDOM & VOTING RIGHTS Issue.

What we are allowed to do is not voting.

Take this to the Ballots, Legislators and Judicial Courts.

Show them what democracy looks like.

END 'Winner-Takes-All' sElections - r/EndWTA

https://www.FairVote.org - https://RankTheVote.US

r/WhatIsVoting ?

r/EndFPTP - r/EndWTA - r/PROPORTIONAL - r/RTVApps • r/RankThePolls

r/Vote - r/VoteByMail - r/Duopoly - r/3rdParty

Data needed for ballot measures

States and Counties

RCV 2020 Ballot Measures

[Ballotpedia](https://ballotpedia.org/Ranked-choice_voting_(RCV) • FairVote.org

Maps of where RCV is in use within the U.S.

• RankedChoiceVoting.org • Wikipedia

[Ballotpedia](https://ballotpedia.org/Ranked-choice_voting_(RCV) • FairVote.org

Electoral Systems global

Ranked Choice Voting 101 - FairVote.org

Ranked Voting explained / uses

Wikipedia • Electowiki

Condorcet
Range/Score
STAR Score then a runoff
and many other variances

Proportional Representation

ElectoWiki • Wikipedia
r/Proportional

Fair Representation Act

H.R. 4000

To establish RCV for Congress and multi-member congressional districts

To require states to conduct congressional redistricting through independent commissions, and for other purposes.

50 State Wiki

Each State is linked to a editable wiki

Alaska

Ballot Measure 2

PASSED

Alaskans for Better Elections

Alabama

Arkansas

Open Primaries Arkansas

Arizona

California

Colorado

Basalt: Adopted in 2002 for mayoral races, first used in April 2020.

Carbondale: Adopted in 2002 for mayoral races.

RCV for Colorado

Connecticut

VoterChoiceConnecticut
facebook link in wiki

Delaware

Rank The Vote DE

Florida

Georgia

Georgia for RCV
facebook link in wiki

For overseas voters in runoffs , Springfield, Illinois: Adopted in 2007 and used since 2011.

Fair Vote Illlinois

Indiana

Hoosiers for Electoral Reform

Kansas

Rank The Vote Kansas
facebook link in wiki

Kentucky

Louisinana

Massachusetts

In use since the 1940s in Cambridge in multi-winner form. Used for the nine-seat city council and the six-seat school board, both elected citywide.

Question 2 on Ballot this Election:

Ranked choice voting for Massachusetts
U.S. Senate and U.S House general and primary elections,
State primary and general elections,
and county offices, beginning in 2022.
YES ON 2 RCV Massachusetts
Voter Choice Masachusetts

Maryland

Ranked Choice Voting for Maryland

Maine

Adopted in 2016 and first used in 2018 for all state and federal primary elections, and all general elections for Congress.
Extended to apply to the general election for president beginning in 2020

Portland, Maine : Adopted in 2010 and used since 2011 for electing mayor.

Maine's Committee for RCV

Support Lisa Savage and her green party platform

Help diversify the Senate with green ideas!

Michigan

Eastpointe: Adopted to resolve a federal Voting Rights Act lawsuit and used for two city council seats (at-large, proportional) in November 2019.

RANK MI VOTE

Minnesota

Used in several cities
Fair Vote Minnessota

Mississippi

Missouri

Missourians for Ranked Choice Voting - r/Missouri4RCV/
facebook link in wiki

Montana

North Carolina

NorthDakota

North Dakota Voter’s First, submitted 36,000 signatures for a ballot initiative that would have enacted several changes, including a "Top Four Primary" with ranked choice voting. It was approved by the Secretary of State, but the North Dakota Supreme Court removed it from the ballot because the petitions should have included the full text of the ballot measure.

North Dakota Voter's First

Nebraksa

r/RankTheVoteNebraska

New Jersey

Voter Choice New Jersey
facebook link in wiki

New Mexico

Santa Fe and Las Cruces use RCV for municipal offices.

Nevada

Nevadans for Electoral Reform

New York

Adopted and starts in 2021

Common Cause New York led the charge to place Ranked Choice Voting on the 2019 ballot by lobbying the city’s charter review commission. Joined by Rank the Vote NYC, the official ballot committee, On November 5th, 2019 It passed. Nearly 75% of voters were in favor of the proposal. Starts in 2021.