On February 23, New York city held a special election to fill the vacancy in the 31st city council seat, in Queens. This is the second New York city special election this year in which ranked choice voting has been in place. In the previous election, three weeks ago, one candidate had a majority of the first-choice votes, so there was no need to process the ballots again. But in the 31st district election, no one got a majority of the first-choice votes, so the ballots will be redistributed so that the second-choice votes, and perhaps even the third-choice votes, will determine the winner. See this story. Thanks to Richard Grayson for the link.
Special city council elections in New York city do not have party nominees. Candidates may have a partisan label, expressing their views, but the label cannot match the name of a qualified political party.
Candidate/incumbent replacement lists = NOOO more special elections.
ANY *communist* labels ???
Candidate/incumbent replacement lists = NOOO more special elections.
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Reg elections –
Condorcet = RCV done right.
If it’s no great burden, they should report all ranked votes, even if there is no impact on outcome
Presume all ballots must be taken to central sorting machine.
Small burden in urban gerrymander district.
BIG burden in rural areas.
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Possible sort/count by precinct machines —
BUT E-info transfer security to central place would have to be TOTAL.
THUS- candidate rank order lists of other candidates.