Sentence examples for a ranked choice from inspiring English sources

Another one of our ideas for a ranked choice ballot has had even wider reach.

A federal judge ordered Alabama to use a ranked choice ballot for overseas and military voters -- the state's requested remedy -- for the primary election in fall 2013.

It is the sort of contestant built for a ranked choice contest, in that it offers something for everyone, and is likely to pile up second-choice and third-choice rankings.

The use of RCV ballots is a positive step for military and overseas voters -- and one that suggests the broader value of a ranked choice ballot for all voters, given the typical low turnout and increased taxpayer burdens of two-round runoffs.

The runoff can be so close to the general election because Mississippi allows its overseas voters to cast a ranked choice, "instant runoff" ballot before the first round, with each overseas ballot counting in the runoff for whichever finalist is ranked higher on the ballot.

I made the case for a "top four" ranked choice voting system at our Democracy Slam last month, and was pleased to see such a good response to it from judges and the audience.

Political analysts say there is no way to predict a winner, especially with ranked choice voting, where voters pick their top three choices, and candidates are slowly eliminated through multiple rounds of vote-counting.

The second and third scenarios, based on when the field might be reduced to only two candidates in lieu of having an instant runoff with ranked choice voting ballots, are the most problematic for our representative democracy.

In the story, Bay Citizen/New York Times said that despite a $300,000 public education campaign about ranked choice, only one-third of voters in a November 8 election filled out all three choices on the ballot.

Compared with the old system, which often required a separate run-off election, ranked choice also saves money.

For example, Cincinnati elected its first black city councilmember in an at-large election with ranked choice voting in 1931, when the city was only 10.6% African American.