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Ranked choice ballots give voters more options — but make ballots harder to fill out On Tuesday, New York City will hold primary elections for mayor and other local offices. It will be the second time the city is using “ranked choice voting” to select the Democratic and Republican nominees for its top office. Under New York City’s ranked choice rules, rather than cast their votes for just their top candidates, voters can rank as many as five preferred candidates from first through fifth. Enabling voters to rank candidates gives them an extra degree of input in a primary, but it also requires ranked choice ballots to be more complicated. In a typical non-ranked choice election, candidates have single buttons or bubbles next to their names on the ballot. In a ranked choice election, voters need the ability to select candidates as their first, second, third, etc. choices. On New York’s Democratic mayoral ballot this year, that translates into 60 bubbles, spread across 12 rows and five columns. The grid style of ballot is more complex than a non-ranked one, adding new ways for voters to mismark or mistakenly fill out their ballots. While the rate of rejected ballots tends to be fairly small in ranked choice races, it happens about 10 times more often than in non-ranked races that appear on the same ballot, according to our recently published
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