Forum: Ranked Choice Voting and the Race for Council District 9

NEW YORK, NY (06/14/2023) (readMedia)-- On Thursday, Rank the Vote NYC, Common Cause/NY, National Council of Negro Women - Manhattan Section, New York for Biden/Harris, Indivisible Harlem and the NY Branch of the NAACP will host a forum about Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) and the race for Council District 9. The event will be co-moderated by Nayaba Arinde, News Editor at the Amsterdam News and Rebecca Lewis, senior state politics reporter at City & State New York. All three candidates including Assembly Member Inez Dickens, Assembly Member Al Taylor, and Yusef Salaam will join.

Press can RSVP for the forum here.

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.