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Testimony by Levi Yitzchak Anteby, Member of the Public, on ranked-choice voting implementation issues
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3 min
Levi Yitzchak Anteby, a member of the public, raises concerns about New York City's implementation of ranked-choice voting (RCV).
He argues that voters should be allowed to rank all candidates on the ballot, not just a limited number (e.g., five), to ensure a true majority winner.
Anteby also criticizes the use of batch elimination in tabulating RCV results, suggesting it can obscure voter preferences and that individual elimination rounds with full data release would be more transparent.
Levi Yitzchak Anteby
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What are doing today?
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I wanted to bring up three issues, the ranked choice voting.
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Issue I don't know if there'll be time for all of them tonight.
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I'll go with one, and we'll see how how much time we have.
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Issue number one is in most of the states that have ranked choice voting, they allow for ranking of all candidates.
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With only being able to rank five candidates, you do not have a full complete say in who wins or who loses the kitten the you mean, the kid the the person that you want to win, the person that you want to lose.
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And it's not a and the 50% that the person reaches at the end of the, you know, the round is that of true 50% of the people.
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31.
1:35:13
Why, Abby?
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That's that's issue one.
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So we should be able to rank all cabinet.
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Any questions, or I should move on to to number two?
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Please
Anthony Richardson
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continue.
Richard Buery
1:35:29
Hello?
Levi Yitzchak Anteby
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Yeah.
Richard Buery
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You can continue.
1:35:40
Okay.
Levi Yitzchak Anteby
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Issue number two, batch elimination.
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As far as I'm aware, I think New York City is the only place that has batch elimination.
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Batch elimination also takes away from the voters' for for the voters' attention.
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You need as far as I read from I forgot from from which side it was, from a loss from a law site that gave the rules of the right choice of tabulation is that in order to, what's it called, to do batch elimination rounds, you need to make sure that it's not possible for any candidate to be able to surpass the ones before them.
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But in order to do that, you need to be counting all choice all choices, you know, and not eliminating multiple candidates.
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So I and and in order to know which where where the vote goes after the next person, the next person, you need to do it one person at a time.
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And it the since I assume this has already be been being done unless the, you know, the board of election is lying to the public, just release that that information.
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That's issue number two.
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Any questions, or should I continue?
Richard Buery
1:37:16
Please continue.
Levi Yitzchak Anteby
1:37:17
Issue number three.
Richard Buery
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I'm and I'm sorry.
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We're at we're actually at time.