[EL] Utah != Alaska != Maine = NYC

[Jack Santucci]

I appreciate the bipartisan enthusiasm for ranked ballots, but these RCV systems are fundamentally different from each other.

Maine and New York City are using majoritarian RCV within party primaries.

Alaska has decided to use majoritarian RCV for the second round of a nonpartisan two-round system (which itself did not exist before RCV introduction). So, one of RCV’s functions here has been to shepherd abolition of party primaries.

Meanwhile, the Utah cities will be using majoritarian RCV for single- as well as multi-seat elections.

More info here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351849825_Variants_of_Ranked-Choice_Voting_from_a_Strategic_Perspective



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> On May 26, 2021, at 11:14 AM, Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu> wrote:
> 
> Is the Voting Reform that Draws the Most Bipartisan Support Ranked-Choice Voting?
> Posted on May 25, 2021 2:03 pm by Richard Pildes
> 
> The Virginia GOP used RCV in its nominating convention this year.
> 
> 23 cites in Utah, including Salt Lake City, voted recently to adopt RCV.
> 
> Alaskan voters in 2020 adopted RVC for federal and statewide races.
> 
> Maine voters in 2018 adopted RCV for federal and state elections (in state elections, it is used only in primaries due to a court decision).
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> That’s along with liberal cities that have used RCV for a while, including San Francisco, Minneapolis, Oakland, and Cambridge.
> 
> To be sure, none of these changes have been adopted by state legislatures. But this list of places is fairly diverse.
> 
> 
> Posted in alternative voting systems
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