Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast

Ranked Choice Voting Gives NYC Strange Bedfellows And An Endless Election Night


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New York City is using "ranked choice voting" for the first time. It's the largest implementation so far of this different way of tallying votes. On today's show, it's the day of the primary, so we asked listeners to call in for an "exit poll" on how they decided their ballot rankings. Plus, Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, talks about what she is seeing at poll sites, answers last-minutes ranked choice voting questions and explains why the counting process will take so much time.

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