Rep. Kirsten Harris-Talley, D-Seattle, has put ranked-choice voting on the horizon for local elections with House Bill 1156.
Ranked choice is a method that allows voters to do just that: rank their choices in order of preference.
HB 1156 would allow localities to decide for which, if any, local elections they will implement ranked-choice voting. Then they would either skip the primary or hold one to narrow a race to five candidates.
After the election, all first choice votes are counted. If a candidate has over 50% of the vote, that candidate wins. If no candidate meets that threshold, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated. The voters whose first choice is
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