PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catM to Ranked Choice Voting@ponder.cat · 8 days ago

Ranked choice voting initiatives massively fail

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Ranked choice voting initiatives massively fail

PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catM to Ranked Choice Voting@ponder.cat · 8 days ago

Initiatives related to ranked choice voting in political primaries and general elections were on the ballots in eight states and the District of Columbia.

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Is it because they didn’t use a ranked choice voting mechanism? ( said in partial jest)

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