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Board of Elections outlines ranked-choice voting option, provides draft advisory question
Summary
The Greenbelt Board of Elections presented ranked‑choice voting and a draft ballot question and asked council to consider voter education, software costs and ballot wording before deciding whether to put the question to voters.
The Greenbelt Board of Elections gave a detailed presentation on ranked‑choice voting (RCV), showed round‑by‑round tabulation examples from other cities and provided draft ballot language for an advisory question. The board asked the council whether to place the question on a future ballot for voter guidance. Board presenters defined RCV as a method that lets voters "select candidates by order of preference," and explained how votes are redistributed from eliminated candidates or from excess votes when a candidate surpasses the threshold. The board showed examples from Albany, Calif., and Cambridge, Mass., where…
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