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Clarifying the use of ranked-choice voting in a general election with multiple candidates
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Commissioner Julie Samuels seeks clarification from Randy Peers on whether he agrees that a general election with four candidates, as he suggested, should utilize ranked-choice voting. Peers confirms that he believes the general election should be ranked-choice in such a scenario.
Samuels notes that the current system could technically result in multiple candidates and a winner with less than 50% of the vote.
Julie Samuels
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hi, Randy.
0:24:25
Hi, John.
0:24:26
Just wanna be clear.
0:24:27
When Randy, when you say four, you agree that if you get to four, it should be ranked choice at that part, or are you
Randy Peers
0:24:32
A general election should be ranked choice.
Julie Samuels
0:24:34
Okay.
0:24:34
Because right now, technically, we could have in our current system, we could have multiple candidates and have less than 50%.
John Avlon
0:24:41
And and that's the problem.
0:24:42
I think we have the opportunity and the obligation to fix.
0:24:44
That could be very what we're facing Got what we're facing as far.
0:24:48
Yeah.
Sharon Greenberger
0:24:49
Thank you.
0:24:49
Thank you both so very much.
Robert Carroll
0:24:51
Thank you for your work.