Recently, the King County Council discussed proposed legislation that would implement a new system of voting, known as ranked-choice voting for county official elections of positions including King County assessor, King County prosecuting attorney, King County council members, King County executive as well as others.
This is how it works.
According to King County Council staff, Miranda Leskinen, when ranked-choice ballots are counted they begin by tallying the first-choice of every ballot. After the first choice of every ballot is counted, a second round of counting begins, unless a candidate received more than 50 percent of the first-choice votes. In that case, the candidate is declared the winner.
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