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MineralMan

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37. St. Paul, MN used ranked choice voting for the City Council seats

Reply to Polybius (Reply #36)

Tue Nov 5, 2019, 03:53 PM

Nov 2019

this year. It has been used in the past, as well. It still confuses people, though. It works just fine, but many people are not quite sure how to mark their ballots. Some ballots come in with votes for the same person on each round. Other people fill out every round with a different person. As many times as it has been explained, people still don't understand how it works, so that interferes with voting, in my opinion.

It's still becoming a standard method, though.

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Local elections today in PA. femmocrat Nov 2019 #14

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Giving rides to the polling place is a great idea! MineralMan Nov 2019 #21

We voted at 8am this morning in Virginia. It was my 18 yr old's first time voting..He was so excited helpisontheway Nov 2019 #19

In my VA precinct there's only one vapor-vote machine; paper is the main thing. lagomorph777 Nov 2019 #30

Yes, I'm talking about the scanner. For some reason it was not working. It started helpisontheway Nov 2019 #39

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Done. We went at 10 AM. We were voter number 62 and 63. MineralMan Nov 2019 #20

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There are places in the US where there are no elections or ballot initiatives? Polybius Nov 2019 #33

Yes, I'm sure there are. I don't know what places, MineralMan Nov 2019 #34

I learn something new everyday Polybius Nov 2019 #36

St. Paul, MN used ranked choice voting for the City Council seats MineralMan Nov 2019 #37

I voted here in Philly this morning BumRushDaShow Nov 2019 #35

It was strictly a city election for me, nothing else. lpbk2713 Nov 2019 #38

Our election workers were glad to see us. MineralMan Nov 2019 #41

It's good to see cultural diversity in your city. lpbk2713 Nov 2019 #42