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It sounds like the local ranked-choice implementation is unnecessarily complex and constrained. A simple "rank all candidates from 1 (most preferred) to n (least preferred)" for n candidates seems like the better solution.
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>It sounds like the local ranked-choice implementation is unnecessarily complex and constrained. A simple "rank all candidates from 1 (most preferred) to n (least preferred)" for n candidates seems like the better solution.

I'm sure you're right. Unfortunately, I'm not the person you'd need to convince.

Here's contact information[0] for the relevant folks, and thanks for taking an interest. I'm sure my fellow townspeople will be grateful for your guidance. You have my thanks for stepping up to help us improve our voting systems!

For your reference, here's some background on the how the process came to be[1][2][3][4]

[0] https://www.vote.nyc/page/contact-us

[1] https://ballotpedia.org/New_York_City_Ballot_Question_1,_Ele...

[2] https://apnews.com/article/nyc-ranked-choice-voting-explaine...

[3] https://rankthevotenyc.org/history-of-rcv-in-nyc/

[4] https://rankthevotenyc.org/what-we-learned-from-new-york-cit...




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