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 threadSpace HoboJun 25, 2025

@tinker Part of this is that NYC needed to learn the hard way how to use their votes in this system. Eric Adams got the mayoralty partly because New Yorkers thought that you put the worst person at your lowest rank. That bizarrely got him an absurd number of fifth-round votes and launched him into the seat.

This time around, everyone was clear on the message of "Vote for me and this other person who aligns with me, and DO NOT RANK CUOMO!"

Show threadDark Phoenix 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈
@spacehobo @tinker nobody says that you HAVE to use all 5 choices. Seriously, if you only like one person, just vote for them.
Jun 26, 2025 at 3:00amWeb