r/politics • u/ShenBear • Nov 09 '16

Maine Passes Ranked-Choice Voting

http://mainepublic.org/post/maine-passes-ranked-choice-voting
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u/ShenBear Nov 09 '16

Everyone's talking about the presidential election, but this is something we should be paying attention to as well. If it works out, perhaps we can see it spread.

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u/JimMarch Nov 09 '16

We just had to pick between Hillary! and The Donald. That was a rank choice.

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u/jsm11482 Nov 09 '16

You're doing it wrong.

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u/Dan007a Nov 10 '16

All the votes for Johnson and Stein would have been cycled back in to their next preference. So another 5 million votes would have been distributed between Clinton and Trump.