0 a voting system where, if your preferred candidate (= a person competing to be elected) does not get enough votes to stay in the election, your vote can be given to your second choice of candidate:
It is the city's first mayoral election involving ranked choice voting, in which voters can select their three favourite candidates for mayor.
The voting machine company was late getting approval of its ranked choice voting system.
The state of Maine was the first to bring in RCV for state level elections.
Ranked choice voting ensures that candidates with the most votes and broadest support win.
He says that changes like the ranked choice voting system used in San Francisco are often pushed by people who didn't like who won the last election.
The voting for nominations and the voting for the actual award this year is ranked choice voting.
Many cities are implementing RCV in municipal elections.
