Tinker ☀️Jun 25, 2025

A key part of the New York City mayoral races was Ranked Choice Voting.

I'm not seeing many news articles mention this yet (correct me if I'm wrong though!).

Ranked choice let's us vote first for who we actually want.... and then put in backup votes for "good enough" candidates and allows us to compromise and find common ground.

It destroys the concepts of "lesser of two evils" and "throwing away your vote".

I hope we see Ranked Choice voting everywhere.

#newYork #NYC #NYCMayor #ZohranMamdani

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@tinker In Australia we call this preferential voting. It's a fundamental part of our democratic structure at the federal and state levels. In the end the winning candidate has majority support in the broader community sense.
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@isopogonman @tinker Agree, it's fantastic and I believe that preferential voting combined with compulsory voting has been instrumental in preventing the sort of extreme candidates you see in the US be successful in Australia.
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