Arlington became the first locality in Virginia to use ranked-choice voting in a public election. Local lawmakers will vote on whether to keep using the system.
County board member Takis Karantonis praised ranked-choice voting for its ability to better reflect the views of the electorate — and do so proportionally.
Instructions for voters at the ballot box in Arlington were fairly similar to those in other ranked-choice contests, such as the Virginia GOP’s 2021 gubernatorial convention: Voters ranked the candidates in their order of preference, and they could not rank the same candidate twice.But because Arlington had two seats in one contest, the vote tabulation worked a bit differently. That is what sparked much of the confusion for the civically engaged voters who wanted to understand the process.
ballots that listed the three eliminated candidates — who, like her, supported “missing middle” — she had more than enough votes needed to win.The “single transferrable vote” system meant that in some cases, a “surplus fraction” of her votes — beyond what she needed to win — were then redistributed to the remaining candidates.
“The confusing part was explaining the process,” he said. “Going into the voting booth and picking your first, second and third was easy to understand.”
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