Downtown Journal - A taste of Ranked-Choice Voting
08/03/2009
By Cristof Traudes
Seventh Ward residents got an early stab at ranked-choice voting. The election’s winners: Snickers and Twix.A few dozen Ward 7 voters last month got an early, very literal taste of Minneapolis’ new voting method.
At July’s Lunch with Lisa, Lisa Goodman’s monthly luncheon for constituents, the City Council member hosted a mock ranked-choice voting (RCV) election. The goal: teach her constituents how to use RCV and, in the process, learn which two candy bars are the ward’s favorite.
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