[EL] Explaining Ranked-Choice Voting

Mon Apr 26 15:24:08 PDT 2021

New  York City has held its first handful of ranked choice elections
(special elections for City Council seats), and will hold another city-wide
round on June 22.

Here's a visualization of the results in one of the City Council races held
in March https://www.rcvis.com/v/nyc-11csv-1#barchart

On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 12:20 PM Pildes, Rick <rick.pildes at nyu.edu> wrote:

> Having now looked at the City Journal piece that Rob Richie flagged, it
> strike me as quite significant for political reform that City Journal
> endorses a top-five election structure with RCV.  Perhaps that’s a sign of
> some emerging bipartisan support for reform to the structure of primary
> elections.
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> Best,
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> Rick
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> Richard H. Pildes
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> Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law
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> NYU School of Law
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> *From:* Rob Richie <rr at fairvote.org>
> *Sent:* Monday, April 26, 2021 12:00 PM
> *To:* Pildes, Rick <rick.pildes at nyu.edu>
> *Cc:* sean at impactpolicymanagement.com; Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu>;
> Election Law Listserv <law-election at uci.edu>
> *Subject:* Re: [EL] Explaining Ranked-Choice Voting
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> RCV advocates generally believe that this approach to an "instant runoff"
> is helpful for clarifying mandates and outcomes. One good example was an
> open seats race for to be the mayor of Berkeley n 2016, where the winner
> had a large "instant runoff" win, but the county stopped the tally whenever
> he first went over 50% -- and over the course of the slow California tally
> of votes, he sometimes went over 50% in the 2nd round (just barely) and
> sometimes in the 3rd round (much more substantially), when in fact all
> along he consistently had a big win.
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>  San Francisco now reports the "instant runoff" tally down to two even
> when a candidate has surpassed 50% of votes in the first round, as in this
> example from London Breed's landslide mayoral election win in 2019
> <https://www.sfelections.org/results/20191105/data/20191125/mayor/20191125_mayor_short.pdf>.
> My colleague Pedro Hernandez and I did a short piece
> <https://www.fairvote.org/a_better_way_to_report_ranked_choice_voting_elections_in_california_cities>about
> this in looking at San Francisco Bay Area elections in 2018.
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> In the spirit of "instant runoffs," New York City results will show
> first-round wins when a candidate earns over 50% or show the final
> "head-to-head" instant runoff when the field is reduced to two.
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> BTW, the Nation magazine has a detailed writeup of the mayoral race
> <https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ranked-choice-voting-nyc/>
> today from a progressive perspective today and City Journal had a helpful
> piece <https://www.city-journal.org/nyc-mayoral-race-ranked-choice-voting>
> from a conservative piece last week.
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> Rob
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> On Monday, April 26, 2021, Pildes, Rick <rick.pildes at nyu.edu> wrote:
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> Varies by jurisdiction --
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> Best,
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> Rick
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> Richard H. Pildes
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> Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law
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> NYU School of Law
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> *From:* Law-election <law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu> *On
> Behalf Of *sean at impactpolicymanagement.com
> *Sent:* Monday, April 26, 2021 11:03 AM
> *To:* 'Rick Hasen' <rhasen at law.uci.edu>; 'Election Law Listserv' <
> law-election at uci.edu>
> *Subject:* Re: [EL] Explaining Ranked-Choice Voting
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> I’m curious whether this practice of continuing to conduct the RCV process
> even after a winner is known is required by statute, or whether it is an
> administrative decision? Or does it vary by jurisdiction?
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> Sean
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> Explaining Ranked-Choice Voting
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__electionlawblog.org_-3Fp-3D121780&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=v3oz9bpMizgP1T8KwLv3YT-_iypxaOkdtbkRAclgHRk&m=jswLkXYUqi67YBou5IpKKg2Iuum_kO3Z8vFBBasZ4og&s=DDaLMuOF9NHbHw3yLXrrv_NtNV-cCTczvyusiDLiQVY&e=>
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> Posted on April 23, 2021 7:36 am
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__electionlawblog.org_-3Fp-3D121780&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=v3oz9bpMizgP1T8KwLv3YT-_iypxaOkdtbkRAclgHRk&m=jswLkXYUqi67YBou5IpKKg2Iuum_kO3Z8vFBBasZ4og&s=DDaLMuOF9NHbHw3yLXrrv_NtNV-cCTczvyusiDLiQVY&e=>
>  by *Richard Pildes*
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__electionlawblog.org_-3Fauthor-3D7&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=v3oz9bpMizgP1T8KwLv3YT-_iypxaOkdtbkRAclgHRk&m=jswLkXYUqi67YBou5IpKKg2Iuum_kO3Z8vFBBasZ4og&s=LTU9oFoBluYbdjK0SVC2DjIRmj80iVgPYiELSEywcog&e=>
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> The New York Times has a good explainer
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nytimes.com_interactive_2021_nyregion_ranked-2Dchoice-2Dvoting-2Dnyc.html-3Faction-3Dclick-26module-3DTop-2520Stories-26pgtype-3DHomepage&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=v3oz9bpMizgP1T8KwLv3YT-_iypxaOkdtbkRAclgHRk&m=jswLkXYUqi67YBou5IpKKg2Iuum_kO3Z8vFBBasZ4og&s=ApNfCXTpGRFJVdrxi2GDqHoSF1JJueJdQbzAJc8-_98&e=>,
> with good visualization aids, that explains how RCV will work in our June
> primaries for mayor. I wanted to clarify one point of potential confusion.
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> The story says:
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> *In New York’s primary, these rounds of elimination will continue until
> there are two candidates left — even if a candidate collects more than 50
> percent of votes before the very end. In each round, when a candidate gets
> eliminated, his or her votes get redistributed to whoever was ranked next
> on the ballot.*
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> A reader might think, wait a minute, once someone has gotten more than 50
> percent of the votes, haven’t they won? Why is there still further counting
> to be done?
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> The answer is yes, once a candidate has more than 50 percent, that
> candidate has indeed won. Nothing in later rounds of counting could change
> that outcome. The reason the counting still continues is purely for
> informational purposes, so that the public can see how the process plays
> out all the way until there are only two candidates remaining and no more
> votes to be redistributed.
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> This is an approach a number of jurisdictions use with RCV, as Michael
> Parsons and I explain in our article
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__papers.ssrn.com_sol3_papers.cfm-3Fabstract-5Fid-3D3563257&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=v3oz9bpMizgP1T8KwLv3YT-_iypxaOkdtbkRAclgHRk&m=jswLkXYUqi67YBou5IpKKg2Iuum_kO3Z8vFBBasZ4og&s=bw1DIVK-Z8r_yYL6mX_LRINbcCHog6FuOyyjGBcjydU&e=> on
> RCV.
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