In New York City, did ranked-choice voting let the wealthy override the working class?
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In New York City s mayoral election, Eric Adams suggested that ranked-choice voting hurt marginalized communities
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Opinion | Eric Adams Says He s the Face of the New Democratic Party Is He Right?
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Perhaps you’ve heard the buzz about something called ranked choice voting. Instead of marking their ballots for just one candidate, voters are asked to rank two or three or more, with the winner determined through multiple rounds of counting if needed.
San Francisco does it. Minneapolis does it. In November, Maine became the first state to use ranked choice voting in a presidential election. There’s been some early talk of adopting ranked choice voting, or RCV, for municipal elections in Chicago, and several bills have been floated that would extend RCV to General Assembly and statewide races.