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Earlier this year, the Utah State Legislature passed a bill that would allow more cities to try ranked-choice voting in their local elections this fall.
Ranked-choice voting allows voters to choose who their first choice for a position is and then rank every other candidate in the order they would like. What vote counters are looking for is a 50% majority for one candidate. If this doesn’t happen, the person with the lowest number of votes are eliminated and the votes for that candidate are given to the voters second choice candidate. This is done until a 50% majority has been reached.