| Shawn Griffiths | IVN |
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The District of Columbia conducted its first ever ranked choice-election on June 16, and according to preliminary analysis from the ranked choice voting advocacy group, FairVote, the results exposed a basic flaw in the way DC traditionally elected people:
Candidates could win powerful offices with most voters choosing someone else.
In other words, it was a system where most voters who participated did not actually get a chance to weigh in on who they preferred among the top candidates.
”More voters remained part of the process
But FairVote says ranked choice voting did exactly what supporters promised it would do. It allowed voters to support their favorite candidate first without being erased from the final decision when that candidate was eliminated.
The result: tens of thousands more voters remained part of the process in DC’s most crowded Democratic primaries.