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Recording: Training on Ranked Choice Voting, courtesy of Free DC
https://freedcproject.org/news/recording-training-on-ranked-choice-voting
#RCV #IRV #RankedChoice #FreeDC #InstantRunoff #RankedChoiceVoting #InstantRunoffVoting #DC #WashingonDC #news #elections #voting #vote

Recording: Training on Ranked Choice Voting, courtesy of Free DC
https://freedcproject.org/news/recording-training-on-ranked-choice-voting
#RCV #IRV #RankedChoice #FreeDC #InstantRunoff #RankedChoiceVoting #InstantRunoffVoting #DC #WashingonDC #news #elections #voting #vote

Recording: Training on Ranked Choice Voting, courtesy of Free DC
https://freedcproject.org/news/recording-training-on-ranked-choice-voting
#RCV #IRV #RankedChoice #FreeDC #InstantRunoff #RankedChoiceVoting #InstantRunoffVoting #DC #WashingonDC #news #elections #voting #vote

Recording: Training on Ranked Choice Voting, courtesy of Free DC
https://freedcproject.org/news/recording-training-on-ranked-choice-voting
#RCV #IRV #RankedChoice #FreeDC #InstantRunoff #RankedChoiceVoting #InstantRunoffVoting #DC #WashingonDC #news #elections #voting #vote

Recording: Training on Ranked Choice Voting, courtesy of Free DC
https://freedcproject.org/news/recording-training-on-ranked-choice-voting
#RCV #IRV #RankedChoice #FreeDC #InstantRunoff #RankedChoiceVoting #InstantRunoffVoting #DC #WashingonDC #news #elections #voting #vote

@benroyce @imanormalperson @GoSeiGer @randahl
Also, lobby for Ranked Choice Voting / Instant Runoff Voting (RCV / IRV), and educate folks regarding how it works!

It has the potential to break the two-party stranglehold, thus forcing politicians of all stripes to listen more carefully to voters and work harder at serving the public, rather than simply trying to be the lesser of two evils.

https://rcv123.org/

#RCV #IRV #RankedChoiceVoting #InstantRunoffVoting #InstantRunoff #RankedChoice

@benroyce @imanormalperson @GoSeiGer @randahl
Also, lobby for Ranked Choice Voting / Instant Runoff Voting (RCV / IRV), and educate folks regarding how it works!

It has the potential to break the two-party stranglehold, thus forcing politicians of all stripes to listen more carefully to voters and work harder at serving the public, rather than simply trying to be the lesser of two evils.

https://rcv123.org/

#RCV #IRV #RankedChoiceVoting #InstantRunoffVoting #InstantRunoff #RankedChoice

@benroyce @imanormalperson @GoSeiGer @randahl
Also, lobby for Ranked Choice Voting / Instant Runoff Voting (RCV / IRV), and educate folks regarding how it works!

It has the potential to break the two-party stranglehold, thus forcing politicians of all stripes to listen more carefully to voters and work harder at serving the public, rather than simply trying to be the lesser of two evils.

https://rcv123.org/

#RCV #IRV #RankedChoiceVoting #InstantRunoffVoting #InstantRunoff #RankedChoice

@benroyce @imanormalperson @GoSeiGer @randahl
Also, lobby for Ranked Choice Voting / Instant Runoff Voting (RCV / IRV), and educate folks regarding how it works!

It has the potential to break the two-party stranglehold, thus forcing politicians of all stripes to listen more carefully to voters and work harder at serving the public, rather than simply trying to be the lesser of two evils.

https://rcv123.org/

#RCV #IRV #RankedChoiceVoting #InstantRunoffVoting #InstantRunoff #RankedChoice

@benroyce @imanormalperson @GoSeiGer @randahl
Also, lobby for Ranked Choice Voting / Instant Runoff Voting (RCV / IRV), and educate folks regarding how it works!

It has the potential to break the two-party stranglehold, thus forcing politicians of all stripes to listen more carefully to voters and work harder at serving the public, rather than simply trying to be the lesser of two evils.

https://rcv123.org/

#RCV #IRV #RankedChoiceVoting #InstantRunoffVoting #InstantRunoff #RankedChoice

April 26, 2026: Free DC Activist Street Fair, Takoma Park, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM.
https://social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc44-1169-e8c8-143b-969232580014
#WashingtonDC #DC #activists #music #art #information #RankedChoiceVoting #RankedChoice #RCV #InstantRunoffVoting #InstantRunoff #IRV #protest #resistance #news #event

April 26, 2026: Free DC Activist Street Fair, Takoma Park, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM.
https://social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc44-1169-e8c8-143b-969232580014
#WashingtonDC #DC #activists #music #art #information #RankedChoiceVoting #RankedChoice #RCV #InstantRunoffVoting #InstantRunoff #IRV #protest #resistance #news #event

April 26, 2026: Free DC Activist Street Fair, Takoma Park, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM.
https://social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc44-1169-e8c8-143b-969232580014
#WashingtonDC #DC #activists #music #art #information #RankedChoiceVoting #RankedChoice #RCV #InstantRunoffVoting #InstantRunoff #IRV #protest #resistance #news #event

April 26, 2026: Free DC Activist Street Fair, Takoma Park, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM.
https://social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc44-1169-e8c8-143b-969232580014
#WashingtonDC #DC #activists #music #art #information #RankedChoiceVoting #RankedChoice #RCV #InstantRunoffVoting #InstantRunoff #IRV #protest #resistance #news #event

April 26, 2026: Free DC Activist Street Fair, Takoma Park, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM.
https://social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc44-1169-e8c8-143b-969232580014
#WashingtonDC #DC #activists #music #art #information #RankedChoiceVoting #RankedChoice #RCV #InstantRunoffVoting #InstantRunoff #IRV #protest #resistance #news #event

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5baPn6SAQA

#US #USA #USPol #USPoli #USPolitics #America #Propaganda #Capitalism #Socialism #SocialDemocracy #LandOfTheFree #Freedom #Liberty #Education #Brainwashed #Colonialism #Healthcare #Childcare #ParentalLeave #ImperialOverstretch #CriticalThinking #Cults #MindControl #Gerrymandering #FPTP #TwoPartySystem #RankedChoice #RankedChoiceVoting #PledgeOfAllegiance #QuestionAuthority #ChristianNationalism #AmericanExceptionalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5baPn6SAQA

#US #USA #USPol #USPoli #USPolitics #America #Propaganda #Capitalism #Socialism #SocialDemocracy #LandOfTheFree #Freedom #Liberty #Education #Brainwashed #Colonialism #Healthcare #Childcare #ParentalLeave #ImperialOverstretch #CriticalThinking #Cults #MindControl #Gerrymandering #FPTP #TwoPartySystem #RankedChoice #RankedChoiceVoting #PledgeOfAllegiance #QuestionAuthority #ChristianNationalism #AmericanExceptionalism

02/09 6:30 - 8:00 PM
Ranked Choice Voting Educational Session
Busboys & Poets - 2004 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave SE, Washington, DC 20020
https://actionnetwork.org/events/february-meeting-ranked-choice-voting-educational-session
#DC #WashingtonDC #RankedChoiceVoting #InstantRunoffVoting #RankedChoice #InstantRunoff #IRV #RCV #event #education

02/09 6:30 - 8:00 PM
Ranked Choice Voting Educational Session
Busboys & Poets - 2004 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave SE, Washington, DC 20020
https://actionnetwork.org/events/february-meeting-ranked-choice-voting-educational-session
#DC #WashingtonDC #RankedChoiceVoting #InstantRunoffVoting #RankedChoice #InstantRunoff #IRV #RCV #event #education

02/09 6:30 - 8:00 PM
Ranked Choice Voting Educational Session
Busboys & Poets - 2004 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave SE, Washington, DC 20020
https://actionnetwork.org/events/february-meeting-ranked-choice-voting-educational-session
#DC #WashingtonDC #RankedChoiceVoting #InstantRunoffVoting #RankedChoice #InstantRunoff #IRV #RCV #event #education

02/09 6:30 - 8:00 PM
Ranked Choice Voting Educational Session
Busboys & Poets - 2004 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave SE, Washington, DC 20020
https://actionnetwork.org/events/february-meeting-ranked-choice-voting-educational-session
#DC #WashingtonDC #RankedChoiceVoting #InstantRunoffVoting #RankedChoice #InstantRunoff #IRV #RCV #event #education

02/09 6:30 - 8:00 PM
Ranked Choice Voting Educational Session
Busboys & Poets - 2004 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave SE, Washington, DC 20020
https://actionnetwork.org/events/february-meeting-ranked-choice-voting-educational-session
#DC #WashingtonDC #RankedChoiceVoting #InstantRunoffVoting #RankedChoice #InstantRunoff #IRV #RCV #event #education

This video about varieties of ranked choice voting is fascinating. It was linked by @benroyce not long ago and I only just got to watching it today.

It makes me quite interested in approval voting, but frankly it also makes me think that instant-runoff works as designed and would be a vast improvement over what we've got.

(The video also doesn't talk about the complexity of resolving ties in approval voting, which further makes me want to push for instant runoff - the perfect can be the enemy of the good enough, leaving us with what we've got today - the wholly inadequate.)

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch/qf7ws2DF-zk

#voting #rcv #rankedchoice

@johnzajac I continue to think that we need to use ballot initiatives and lobbying to push for universal ranked choice voting. Those tools remain available to us.

RCV rewards appealing platforms and punishes extremist platforms. Over time people will get so hooked on the results of an actual representative democracy that they will refuse to give it up to appease the oligarchs. There will eventually stop being oligarchs.

The most recent highly-visible example of the power of RCV was the election of Zohran Mamdani, who won because of his platform and despite big money on both sides.

And we should be able to sell this to the rural right-wing too. Choose the zealot who exactly matches your crazy beliefs, whatever they are. And still over time as they come to realize that they're not sick or starving and that their kids have a future, they'll be moving in the direction of government that exists to help everyone. They won't get to universal healthcare or universal basic income as fast as some of us, but they will get there.

Here's one of many analyses out there:

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-future-of-the-instant-runoff-election-reform/

If violence is our only tool, we've already lost. Violence doesn't offer a safeguard that reforms will hold. Only a system that engages the public in a positive way has any hope of bringing about the changes we desperately need.

#rankedchoice #rcv

Between rejecting Flock, city owned and operated fiber and the recent push to get #rankedchoice voting (#RCV) on the ballot, I'm willing to admit I'm jealous of #LongmountCO.

Louisville ran fiber, but out sourced the operation to T-Mobile.

https://boulderreportinglab.org/2025/12/11/longmont-halts-flock-license-plate-reader-data-sharing-and-weighs-ending-contract-as-boulder-plans-to-renew/

Between rejecting Flock, city owned and operated fiber and the recent push to get #rankedchoice voting (#RCV) on the ballot, I'm willing to admit I'm jealous of #LongmountCO.

Louisville ran fiber, but out sourced the operation to T-Mobile.

https://boulderreportinglab.org/2025/12/11/longmont-halts-flock-license-plate-reader-data-sharing-and-weighs-ending-contract-as-boulder-plans-to-renew/

Between rejecting Flock, city owned and operated fiber and the recent push to get #rankedchoice voting (#RCV) on the ballot, I'm willing to admit I'm jealous of #LongmountCO.

Louisville ran fiber, but out sourced the operation to T-Mobile.

https://boulderreportinglab.org/2025/12/11/longmont-halts-flock-license-plate-reader-data-sharing-and-weighs-ending-contract-as-boulder-plans-to-renew/

Between rejecting Flock, city owned and operated fiber and the recent push to get #rankedchoice voting (#RCV) on the ballot, I'm willing to admit I'm jealous of #LongmountCO.

Louisville ran fiber, but out sourced the operation to T-Mobile.

https://boulderreportinglab.org/2025/12/11/longmont-halts-flock-license-plate-reader-data-sharing-and-weighs-ending-contract-as-boulder-plans-to-renew/

Between rejecting Flock, city owned and operated fiber and the recent push to get #rankedchoice voting (#RCV) on the ballot, I'm willing to admit I'm jealous of #LongmountCO.

Louisville ran fiber, but out sourced the operation to T-Mobile.

https://boulderreportinglab.org/2025/12/11/longmont-halts-flock-license-plate-reader-data-sharing-and-weighs-ending-contract-as-boulder-plans-to-renew/

> "Democrat Leadership considering Ranked Choice Primaries for 2028."

DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT

https://www.axios.com/2025/11/24/democrats-ranked-choice-voting-2028-primaries

#USpol #democracy #RankedChoice #voting

I'm excited to live in a place with ranked-choice / instant runoff voting!

City elections in Saint Paul use that system: https://www.ramseycountymn.gov/residents/elections-voting/voters/prepare-vote/ranked-voting

Next month is a mayoral election. This'll be the first time I've voted this way, and it's delightfully hard -- I know who I want to rank first, but now I need to rank the other candidates. So I need to go off and actually look up what those candidates have said.

(One big concern of mine is the Summit Avenue bike lane project, which I think is important because (1) I live very close to Summit and use it, partly because (2) it's a major east-west bicycle route for the city and needs to be improved.)

#stpaul #rankedchoice #voting #bicycling

Here's one of the volunteer spotlights from Rank MI Vote, the #rankedchoice #RCV grassroots group in #Michigan

https://youtube.com/shorts/XQbr8T26dBc?si=iJx76_16RxxoHY9g

The coverage of the NYC primary, in which Zohran Mamdani is leading, makes me think that journalists wrote explainers about the ranked voting and then completely forgot about it.

***You don't know that Mamdani has won, even if he's leading in first-position votes!***

With ranked voting, it's not uncommon that the first-round leader ends up not winning. Take a look at page 9 of this PDF, the voting stats for last year's Hugo Awards:

https://www.thehugoawards.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2024_hugo_statistics.pdf

In this vote for Best Novella, SEEDS OF MERCURY leads the first round with 881 votes, and the eventual winner THORNHEDGE only has 593 votes. But as No Award and the lower candidates get eliminated, SEEDS OF MERCURY's vote total doesn't shift much while THORNHEDGE's just keeps climbing.

In the NYC election, it's certainly plausible that the 11% of votes for Brad Lander will have Mamdani as the second choice and put Mamdani over 50%, but you don't know that for sure! He shouldn't be declaring victory, and Cuomo shouldn't be conceding.

#ZohranMamdani #RankedChoice #voting #NYC

#Mamdani!!!!! This is great news for the world.

And how did it happen? Teen agers and 20 something's talking to older relatives and encouraging them to vote in the primary.

#NYC #Relational #RankedChoice #TurnoutNation #NewYork

#Mamdani!!!!! This is great news for the world.

And how did it happen? Teen agers and 20 something's talking to older relatives and encouraging them to vote in the primary.

#NYC #Relational #RankedChoice #TurnoutNation #NewYork

#Mamdani!!!!! This is great news for the world.

And how did it happen? Teen agers and 20 something's talking to older relatives and encouraging them to vote in the primary.

#NYC #Relational #RankedChoice #TurnoutNation #NewYork

#Mamdani!!!!! This is great news for the world.

And how did it happen? Teen agers and 20 something's talking to older relatives and encouraging them to vote in the primary.

#NYC #Relational #RankedChoice #TurnoutNation #NewYork

#Mamdani!!!!! This is great news for the world.

And how did it happen? Teen agers and 20 something's talking to older relatives and encouraging them to vote in the primary.

#NYC #Relational #RankedChoice #TurnoutNation #NewYork

All #RankedChoice ballots should include an explicit option of "Not Acceptable", to make it clear that some candidates do not deserve even your fourth or fifth vote.

DO NOT rank Cuomo. Leave him off your ballot entirely. #NYC #NYCMayor #rankedchoice

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5gdjq6qb6oratqtdfchsqbr4/post/3lrjbfdhiuc2z

Unelected Liberals: #NDP Voters! You must vote in #MarkCarney for #Canada, help us prevent a Poilievre right wing takeover!

Elected Liberals: Fuck off NDP voters! Everyone knew Mark Carney was a progressive Conservative, no take backs!

#elbowsup #BuyersRemorse #cdnpoli #canpoli #LeftBehind #proportionalrepresentation #rankedchoice #votingreformnow

Proud to have voted 'yes' to make this happen. Rather to have selected yes as my #1 choice.

"Skokie, IL voted yesterday to adopt ranked choice voting"

https://fairvote.org/skokie-il-adopts-ranked-choice-voting/

#RankedChoice #skokie

❄️ Hey, Portland - it's time to vote for your favorite snow plow names! ❄️

"News Blog: Cast your vote to name five PBOT snowplows"

https://www.portland.gov/transportation/news/2025/1/13/news-blog-cast-your-vote-name-five-pbot-snowplows

"The submissions are in, 20 names have been chosen, and now the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) calls on the public to help choose the top five snowplow names."

"Use this as an opportunity to practice your ranked choice voting skills! " 😂

#Oregon #Portland #PDX #PDXtst #Fun #RankedChoice

The United States would be great if we had mandatory voting and ranked choice voting with donations transparent and restricted to registered voters.

#politics #voting #rankedchoice #campaignfinance

Heh--set up a little #RankedChoice ballot on rcv1223.org for my family to vote on which Christmas cookies we should make this year. Neat site.

IMHO An excellent proposal from Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez on #ElectoralReform. #ProportionalRepresentation, #RankedChoice voting and #Nonpartisan primaries all get a shout-out. Hope it gets some traction. #USPol https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-resolution/1573/text/ih

Ranked choice elections appear to be working in Maine:

"Democratic Rep. Jared Golden won reelection to Congress through Maine’s ranked choice system on Friday.

"It’s the third time in four elections in the hotly contested district that Golden won after votes were retabulated because first choices failed to produce a majority for any candidate.

"This time it was Republican challenger Austin Theriault who came out behind."
https://apnews.com/article/maine-house-congress-golden-theriault-bb072ca55aaab2ebae3fb8b6339cb545
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#Maine #elections #RankedChoice #FPTP

@Voline Thanks for that link - it's a lot more informative than the article in The Oregonian!

#USPol #Oregon #Voting #RankedChoice

Vorgestern war der Stichtag zum #PopularVote-Staatsvertrag. Die Vertragsstaaten haben nur 209 von 538 #Wahlmänner⁠n kontrolliert, also wird er zur #Präsidentschaftswahl 2024 sicher nicht mehr angewandt. Zuletzt ist im April #Maine beigetreten, was wegen dem dortigen #RankedChoice interessant ist. Beides ist nämlich eigentlich inkompatibel und nicht so klar, wie Präferenzen in Stimmen übersetzt werden sollen. Maine hat das nun für sich ausdrücklich definiert. #WahlThread #IRV #USA #USA2024 [1/7]

🗳️ Campaign aims to put ranked-choice voting to a referendum in Ithaca

https://ithacavoice.org/2024/06/campaign-aims-to-put-ranked-choice-voting-to-a-referendum-in-ithaca/

#ithaca #voting #politics #rankedchoice #ny #tompkins