Rank the Vote, Hundreds of NYers Host Weekend of Action on Ranked Choice Voting

NEW YORK, NY (05/15/2021) (readMedia)-- This weekend, Rank the Vote NYC with partners including Color of Change, City Harvest, Black Health, the Brooklyn NAACP and others, will host a weekend of action on Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) throughout five boroughs at over 50 locations. Over a hundred volunteers will be handing out literature and educating New Yorkers on the new voting method before voters head to the polls in June.

RCV gives voters the opportunity to either rank as many as five candidates in order of preference or vote for just one like they always have. If no one wins with a majority (more than 50 percent), 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 percent of the vote.

SOME LOCATIONS:

Saturday May 15 from 11am to 3pm:

Bronx

E167th & River Ave (Spanish speakers, French)- Starting point

Queens Business Corridors

Flushing - Free Synagogue of Flushing - Flushing Community Fridge (136-23 Sanford Ave)

Manhattan Business Corridors

Harlem

124th & 125th Street & Malcolm X Blvd (Whole Foods) (Lenox Avenue)

110th Street & Manhattan Avenue (Farmers Market) Morningside Park

181st and St. Nicholas Ave

May 16th

Brooklyn

13th Avenue between 39th-49th St.

Gods Battalion, 661 Linden Blvd

Cortelyou btw Argyle & Rugby Sundays

Bronx

Christ Apostolic Church, 483 E Tremont Ave.

Riverdale Hebrew Institute

Queens

Forest Hills 70 Ave & Queens Blvd Sundays, 8–3

Jackson Heights 82 Street Station 10-2

Manhattan Faith Corridors

Tompkins Square E 7 St & Ave A Sundays, 9–5