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Sponsor urges committee to ban ranked-choice voting statewide in Senate Bill 63
Summary
At its first hearing, a Senate sponsor urged the committee to prohibit ranked-choice voting statewide, citing tabulation delays, voter confusion and examples of tabulation errors; members pushed back with historical context and questions about local control and turnout.
A senator appearing before the Ohio House General Government Committee at the first hearing for Senate Bill 63 urged members to pass legislation that would prohibit ranked-choice voting (also called instant-runoff voting) in Ohio, arguing it would reduce confusion, speed results and preserve confidence in elections.
The sponsor told the committee that ranked-choice voting “continuously eliminates candidates in a series of rounds until one candidate wins a majority, 50% plus 1 vote,” and said the method can…
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