
This year’s city council election is a Ranked-Choice Vote. Ranked choice voting is a nonpartisan electoral reform that gives voters the freedom to rank candidates in order of choice.
Instead of choosing ONE candidate, ranked-choice voting allows voters to rank all candidates according to their preference (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.).
In each round of ranked-choice voting, the candidate with the lowest number of votes is eliminated. When a voter’s number one choice is eliminated, their second choice is included in the count for the second round. This process continues until the final round.
