How does ranked-choice voting work?

Ranked-choice voting is like picking your favorite ice cream flavor, but you get to choose more than one.

Imagine you and your friends are trying to decide which game to play at recess. Instead of just picking the most popular game right away, you each write down your top choices in order. That way, if your first pick doesn’t win, your second or third choice can still help it win.

Here’s how it works step by step:

Each person gets to rank their favorite options, like picking their 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choices. It's like making a list of your favorite toys from most loved to least loved.

The votes are counted like this: if no one has more than half the votes, the person with the fewest votes is out, kind of like when someone loses a game and gets replaced by another player. The votes of the people who picked that person as their first choice now go to their next favorite pick.

This keeps happening until one person has more than half the votes, that's the winner!

It’s like playing a game where you get extra chances if your first pick doesn’t win, and it all ends when someone becomes the most popular choice. Ranked-choice voting is like picking your favorite ice cream flavor, but you get to choose more than one.

Imagine you and your friends are trying to decide which game to play at recess. Instead of just picking the most popular game right away, you each write down your top choices in order. That way, if your first pick doesn’t win, your second or third choice can still help it win.

Here’s how it works step by step:

Each person gets to rank their favorite options, like picking their 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choices. It's like making a list of your favorite toys from most loved to least loved.

The votes are counted like this: if no one has more than half the votes, the person with the fewest votes is out, kind of like when someone loses a game and gets replaced by another player. The votes of the people who picked that person as their first choice now go to their next favorite pick.

This keeps happening until one person has more than half the votes, that's the winner!

It’s like playing a game where you get extra chances if your first pick doesn’t win, and it all ends when someone becomes the most popular choice.