Ranked Choice Voting Facts — Transcript

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1. 0:00politics is tearing us apart and it's
2. 0:02because elections aren't working for
3. 0:04most of us
4. 0:05here's why in the u.s each of us can
5. 0:09vote for the candidate we like the most
6. 0:11but whenever more than two candidates
7. 0:13are running to win one seat
8. 0:14it's possible for most voters to hate
9. 0:16whoever wins
10. 0:18because of this split vote politicians
11. 0:20can ignore the will of most voters
12. 0:22and still win ranked choice voting gives
13. 0:25you the freedom to select a backup
14. 0:27choice
15. 0:27to prevent that from happening let's say
16. 0:30a group uses ranked choice voting to
17. 0:32decide what to eat for dinner tonight
18. 0:34each voter selects their favorite dish
19. 0:37but also has the option to choose backup
20. 0:39dishes
21. 0:40if one food receives more than half the
22. 0:42votes it wins
23. 0:43just like in any other election but
24. 0:46let's get to dessert where the
25. 0:47competition is more fierce
26. 0:49what if no ice cream flavor has more
27. 0:51than 50 of the vote
28. 0:53under a normal race vanilla would win
29. 0:56even though a majority of voters didn't
30. 0:57pick it
31. 0:59with ranked choice voting the flavor
32. 1:00with the fewest votes is eliminated
33. 1:03and voters who chose that flavor as
34. 1:04number one will have their votes count
35. 1:07for their next choice everyone gets to
36. 1:09say
37. 1:10no one wastes their vote and the winner
38. 1:12is the flavor that the largest number of
39. 1:14people agreed upon
40. 1:16that's ranked choice voting it's as easy
41. 1:18as one two
42. 1:19three you get more voice and more choice
43. 1:23and that makes elections better for all
44. 1:24of us