Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a new bill into law this week restricting municipalities from being able to determine how to organize their elections, and totally banning the use of ranked-choice voting.
An elections bill that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law this week restricts municipalities from being able to determine how to organize their elections, and bans the use of ranked-choice voting.
Senate Bill 524 creates a new police force that is tasked with aggressively investigating claims of voter fraud throughout the state —The bill also contains a number of additional, lesser-known provisions, includingRanked-choice voting “makes democracy more fair and functional” by ensuring that voters are given “the option to rank candidates in order of preference,”The ranked-choice voting process is a simple one: voters rank all candidates on the ballot in order of whom they most prefer.
Ranked-choice voting is frequently praised for allowing voters to pick whichever candidates they most prefer without worrying that doing so will be “throwing away” their ballots, a problem that arises under the “first past the post” system of voting. In both
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