When New York population fills voting cards in the preliminary elections on Tuesday, they will be able to choose more than one candidate. They can choose the second option. And the third. And the fourth. And fifth.
It is part of a process called voting in the rank, and it is a system that allows voters to classify candidates for preference instead of only choosing.
System supporters say that voting is ranked unanimous, enhances positive campaigns and allows voters to express a set of opinions. Opponents argue that it is very complicated and can lead to getting rid of polling cards.
Here is what you need to know about voting on the ranking.
How does the selection of voting work in the rank?
Voting in the rank is a means of voting in which people arranged for preference. The number of candidates that the voters can arrange depends on the rules specified in an area. In New York City, voters can get up to five in one race.
Voters do not have to fill their voting cards. The voter whose heart was set to only one candidate can only choose one. But if this candidate does not get the largest number of votes, this voter will not have an opinion on the subsequent rounds of counting.
After scheduling, the last candidate is eliminated. Voter voter who supported this candidate and then calculates the next option. If no candidate has reached 50 %, the count will continue, which will cancel another candidate in the last position and calculate the following options in all of that poll in the next round.
The process continues until the candidate reaches the majority support and wins.
How long does it take to calculate the sounds?
It depends on the location of the elections. In Mine’s state, for example, the selection of selection scheduling was made in a state of Congress in the state on November 15 last year, 10 days after the election day.
In New York City, the Electoral Council will publish unofficial results from the first round of votes on the election night.
Initial disposal rounds will be scheduled a week later, and officials will publish an informal report, according to the Electoral Council. The results can still change as polling cards are treated by mail and useful.
It may take longer for projects to vote in the rank, because the election authorities need to calculate each poll before they know any matter that is canceled for the last position. As we know from the last elections, it may take some time to address and calculate via mail, temporary votes and others.
Why use voting in the rank?
Supporters argue that voting in voting enhances democracy by encouraging positive campaigns for campaign campaigns and building coalition, because people choose more than one candidate.
Defenders also say that the regime encourages politicians to find the middle land, which may help reduce the number of legislators on an ideological margin.
“With RCV, candidates run more positive-or even” cross-ovens “. Instead of concern about” wasting “their vote or choosing the least two parties, voters can classify their sincere preferences. RCV candidates who can build the majority alliance,” is a director of research and politics of policy in the field of reform, said in a statement.
In New York, the opponent of the mayor of Zahran Mamdani, for example, announced accidental factors with his competitors Michael Blake and Brad Lander in an attempt to unify support.
The system is also called the immediate vote for the flow of management, as it replaces the need for the superficial surface flow separately for the winners to obtain the majority support, because the votes are calculated until the candidate gets the majority support. New York City has spent 13 million dollars In 2013 for a superficial flow of drawing a The turnout is 6 %Which required invitations to switch to vote on the ranking of the rank.
Supporters also indicate that voting in voting eliminates the winning of the candidates with very low percentage in the crowded preliminary elections. For example, MP Diana Harshbarger won, R-Tenn. Representative Shri Teedar, D-Mich. , In the open primaries in 2022 by 28 % before it enjoyed the easy public elections in a safe area.
“The population of New York has adopted the vote in the rank because they wanted to change the introductory elections where candidates could win only 20 % of the votes. Now, thanks to RCV, voters have more options and sound in their representatives,” Susan Lenner, Executive Director of COMMON CEUSE said in a statement.
What are the problems of voting to choose the rank?
The opponents argue that the regime mixes voters and leads to eliminating voting cards.
Critics also say that voting is ranked, prolongs the voting process because voters should take enough time to search for all candidates. In the New York City case, this includes 11 municipal candidates on the democratic side.
The New York Mayor’s Race was also 2021 young It included by mistake In the release of one of the declared elections, the city returns to vote on the city’s selection for the first time.
“The vote on the ranking is similar to your polling position in tearing paper and hopes that it will miraculously restore democracy to re -collect itself within the black box from scheduling,” said Madeleine Malesa, a senior colleague of the Governor Conservative Foundation.
“The reality is that voting in the rank is a catastrophe of late results, errors, confusion, and depriving voters everywhere that has been tried. All these problems raise confidence.”
Some groups also argued that voting in the ranking that deprives voters of minorities, indicating many analyzes that the richer neighborhoods and whites have fewer unwanted voting and further use of classification.
Although voting is ranked on a number of judicial states in recent years, there are efforts to decline. In Alaska, the voters passed by a slight difference (by 1 percentage point) a voting bombing a system of selection in 2020.
