Answering questions about Portland's ranked-choice voting | Your Thoughts

Yesterday, we aired a lengthy segment breaking down ranked-choice voting. We heard from some folks who were enlightened, but many were still confused. We answered a few more questions and gave a sampling of what you had to say.

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It's not that complicated. Ranked choice voting eliminates the idea of "spoiler votes". It's harder for people to bully you into voting for someone you don't want over fear of a close race.

An example would be; if your first choice is Jill stein and your second choice is a Clinton fear vote, if Stein doesn't get enough votes total, then Clinton would get your vote next. It protects you from having people jump up your butt for not voting for there lame, two party candidate. If you'd rather vote your conscience you wouldn't have to worry about people screeching at you for not voting for Clinton with your ONE vote.

You can vote for both and have your butt covered with your family and friends. Once you get it you'll realize how great it is to have the ability to vote for your best candidate AND the hold your nose one. It would help eliminate A LOT of the tension around elections.

The two party system needs to go, threatening them with a third party win might scare them enough to meet in the middle and actually get some things done.