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

Show threadBen BradleyJun 26, 2025
@tinker I (in Atlanta) haven't heard about RCV in NYC this year, but I recall in the last decade or so the (first?) NYC RCV election that somehow got messed up and it took some time (weeks?) to count the votes. I thought it was a shame that RCV got so mangled and got such bad press.
Show threadTinker ☀️

@benbradley - Yeah. Every nee system (especially for first adopters) will have transitional challenges, learning curves, and errors.

Just how the world works.

Jun 26, 2025 at 1:39amWeb