From local The Chronicle Newspaper, By Dan Hammock

Rep. Brian Blake, D-Aberdeen, is co-sponsoring a bill that gives counties, cities, towns and other municipalities an option to use a method of ballot counting called “ranked choice voting.”

Ranked choice voting lets voters rank candidates in order of choice: first choice, second choice, third choice, and so on. If a candidate receives more than half of the first choice votes, they win. In nobody gets more than half in the first count, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated and voters who picked that candidate as their “number one” have their votes count for their next choice. This process continues until one candidate wins with more than half the votes.

Advocates say it gives candidates a chance even if they aren’t affiliated with a major party.
Blake said he supports the idea of local jurisdictions having a choice in the method they use to select their candidates.

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