Ranked Choice Voting
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Ranked Choice Voting

Discuss and practice ranked choice voting with students. (45 minutes)

Ranked choice voting, or RCV, is an electoral system in which voters rank every candidate in order of preference instead of voting for just one candidate. Votes are redistributed according to preference until a candidate has over 50% of the vote in single-winner elections or more than the threshold percentage of votes in   multi-winner elections.

There is a Ranked Choice Voting lesson plan from the U.S. Elections | Academy 4 Social Change