“It seems like banning ranked-choice voting has become more popular than implementing it,” Trent England said.
Mississippi has banned ranked-choice voting (RCV) in its state and local elections, joining eight other states.
Gov. Tate Reeves (R) signed a bill into law on Monday that revises the timing of runoff elections in the state beginning in January and bans RCV starting in July.
RCV is an election process gaining traction across the country, but it faces pushback from both sides of the political aisle. With RCV, if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote, then a runoff system is triggered. When voters cast their ballots, they rank each candidate in order of first-to-last.
If one candidate doesn’t reach the 50% plus-one vote threshold, then the candidate with the least amount of first-choice votes is eliminated, then second-choice votes from those who voted for the last-place finisher are reallocated among the remaining candidates and tallied – in a process that continues until a candidate receives the majority of the vote.
So what is the process for reallocating the votes? Looks like another way of cheating to me.
Mississippi is still part of the USA? Wow, musta missed that news.
R. Van Winkle