Check out @vcnj.bsky.social , they are a bunch of volunteers working on RCV in NJ!

@vcnj.bsky.social is working on it. The JC city council actually passed an ordinance saying “when NJ lets us use it, we will let JC voters decide if they want to switch on the next ballot”.

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They exist! The NYTimes found at least two of them. We’ll know exactly how common this was on July 15th when the NYC BOE releases full ballot results.

For that 8%, RCV groups in NYC should target some education toward making that point more clear.

For that 9% an easy way to help is to allow for shared slogans / ballot grouping to reward coalitions.

Other answers:
9%: "I didn't know enough about the other candidates."
8%: "I was afraid that ranking other candidates would hurt my preferred candidate."
4%: "I didn't know I could rank candidates."
0%: "I didn't understand how to fill out the ballot."

www.surveyusa.com/client/PollR...

New polling from the NYC primary relevant to this discussion:

Those who only voted for a single candidate were asked why they did so, the overwhelming majority, 87%, said "That was the only candidate I liked," an answer selected by no less than 69% in any demographic group or part of the city.

Or there was a heat wave, and they wanted to get out of the non-air conditioned polling center as fast as possible, as is the case today/tomorrow.

I could see that being the case in other jurisdictions though.

I hear this one online but not in person from voters, (yes, including seniors). I’ve brought this up directly to many different community leaders and they have generally cited the increase in popularity of mail-in voting for at risk groups as the mitigating factor.

There are people across the river in NY who only like one candidate, or have the weirdest order possible. There are also people who think that ranking more candidates hurts their favorite.

It is impossible to tell the difference looking at raw voting results.

One thing I’d add: “Leakage” and ballot exhaustion can be an accurate form of political expression OR it can be a system of not enough voter education.

That weird block voting system is what we tried to use to pack the House of Representatives with and is the reason multi-member districts were banned. So, sorry to all of my fellow proportional election fans for that.

It depends a lot on what the status quo is.

Lots of local NJ elections would use proportional RCV (aka STV), so that mitigates concerns with ballot exhaustion.

And because of the bizarre block voting system we use, we already have issues with bullet voting.

Education / campaigning can also solve this, but not as cleanly. Canvassers for both Cuomo and Mamdani right now are stressing that you should rank them somewhere to prevent the other candidate from winning.