FORUM: Ranked Choice Voting and the Race for Brooklyn Borough President

NEW YORK, NY (12/09/2020) (readMedia)-- Today, the Brooklyn Library, Rank the Vote NYC, Common Cause/NY, Brooklyn Young Democrats and the Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College will host a forum on ranked choice voting (RCV) and the race for Brooklyn Borough President. The event will be moderated by Lurie Daniel Favors, Interim Executive Director at the Center for Law and Social Justice. Eight candidates will participate, including Councilmembers Anontio Reynoso, Robert Cornegy, and Mathieu Eugene, Assembly Member Jo Anne Simon, Kim Council, Pearlene Fields, Khari Edwards, and Robert Ramos Jr.

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RCV allows voters the opportunity to either rank 5 candidates in order of preference or vote for just one like they always have. If no one wins with a majority (more than 50%), the candidate that came in last is eliminated and voters' second choice votes get counted and so on until there's a majority winner. RCV will apply to primaries and special elections for all local offices including City Council, Borough President, Comptroller, Public Advocate and Mayor. Voters overwhelmingly passed RCV in the fall of 2019, with 74% of the vote.