{"id":15323,"date":"2024-11-10T16:32:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T16:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15323"},"modified":"2024-11-10T16:32:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T16:32:30","slug":"states-will-choose-whether-to-adopt-or-abandon-ranked-choice-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15323","title":{"rendered":"States Will Choose Whether To Adopt or Abandon Ranked Choice Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;On a ranked choice ballot, instead of picking one candidate from a list, voters rank each candidate in order of preference. If one candidate wins an outright majority, then that person wins; if not, then the lowest-performing candidate is eliminated, and their ballots are re-tallied and allotted to whomever they picked as their second choice. This process repeats until one candidate passes 50 percent.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com wp-block-embed-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"U9iVL8aQSV\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/09\/26\/states-will-choose-whether-to-adopt-or-abandon-ranked-choice-voting\/\">States Will Choose Whether To Adopt or Abandon Ranked Choice Voting<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;States Will Choose Whether To Adopt or Abandon Ranked Choice Voting&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/09\/26\/states-will-choose-whether-to-adopt-or-abandon-ranked-choice-voting\/embed\/#?secret=Hz5yU7H2TW#?secret=U9iVL8aQSV\" data-secret=\"U9iVL8aQSV\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;On a ranked choice ballot, instead of picking one candidate from a list, voters rank each candidate in order of preference. If one candidate wins an outright majority, then that person wins; if not, then the lowest-performing candidate is eliminated, and their ballots are re-tallied and allotted to whomever they picked as their second choice. This process repeats until one candidate passes 50 percent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/09\/26\/states-will-choose-whether-to-adopt-or-abandon-ranked-choice-voting\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[198,1641,479],"class_list":["post-15323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-elections","tag-ranked-choice-voting","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15324,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15323\/revisions\/15324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}