MinnPost — This session, the Legislature has the opportunity to pass a sensible, bipartisan bill that would give interested municipalities the freedom and the flexibility to pursue Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) if they wish.
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Was RCV “too complicated” or “too confusing” for low-income voters or voters of color to use? Not in the least. The vast majority of Minneapolis voters in the 2013 election used the option to rank their choices, and liked it. That held true in the city’s most ethnically diverse ward, Ward 5. (None of this was surprising to those of us who’d been paying attention: Four years earlier, a St. Cloud State University study reported that 97 percent of voters of color found using a ranked ballot simple — compared to a still-impressive 94 percent of white voters. “Persons of color are more likely to understand how RCV functions better than white voters,” the authors wrote.)
Read more:https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2015/02/ranked-choice-voting-isnt-likely-confuse-anyone
