As you’ve likely heard, we’re using Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) to elect our mayor, city council members, park board representatives and member of the Board of Estimate and Taxation on Nov. 5, 2014. RCV allows you to identify two backup choices in case your #1 candidate doesn’t gather enough support to make it past the early rounds of counting. That means choosing your favorite, plus two other candidates you could live with – and marking them in order of preference on your ballot. Identifying second and third choices isn’t mandatory. Each ballot will have three columns. Simply mark the ballot left to right, indicating your first choice in the first column, your second choice in the next column, and your third choice in the column after that. “Bullet voting,” marking just one choice or marking the same candidate in all three columns, is identical to only picking a first choice. Fully ranking your ballot in the mayoral and other multicandidate races means that if your favorite candidate doesn’t gather enough support in early rounds of counting and is eliminated, your vote will transfer to your next choice and you’ll continue to be part of the decision-making process. To learn more about how RCV works in Minneapolis, visit vote.minneapolismn.gov and rankyourvotempls.org/ Click here to see a video about how Ranked Choice voting works: vote.minneapolismn.gov/rcv/index.htm And click here to download your sample ballot: myballotmn.sos.state.mn.us/
Posted on: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 19:05:49 +0000
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