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jerryRolfram  ·  2971 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: For Those Who Don’t Want to Vote for the Lesser of Two Evils

How many candidates are running for auditor?

Yeah I think they should call it a ranked choice ballot.

The names are kind of interesting. I recently learned that the system in Maine used to require runoffs if there was no majority winner for an office but in the mid-eighteen hundreds the Constitution was amended so that they wouldn't have to do the run off. Instead they would just go with whoever got the plurality. And that's how we ended up calling what we have now the plurality system or plurality voting. Now most people have no idea what plurality means and it's really a terrible name if you want to try to talk to people about voting reform. I would even like the name single choice voting better. And maybe that's why people use the name right choice voting.

Here is a link about Maine's constitution