Ohio Legislature Passes Bill to Stop Local Governments from Using Ranked Choice Voting

On February 25, the Ohio House passed SB 63, which stops local governments from using Ranked Choice Voting for elections for their own officers. Technically the bill doesn’t outlaw RCV; it just says that any local government that uses it loses state funding. The vote was 65-27. Two Democrats, Representatives Lauren McNally and Daniel Troy, voted for the bill. Otherwise it was a party-line vote.

No local government in Ohio uses Ranked Choice Voting. It is ironic that Ohio’s legislature has passed this bill. In the 1920’s Ohio was a pioneer in the use of alternative voting systems.


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