Ranked Choice Voting + Early Voting GOTV Rally @ the Metropolitan Museum of Art

NEW YORK, NY (06/11/2021) (readMedia)-- Rank the Vote NYC and over a dozen community partners will gather on the steps of The Met, which is, for the first time, an early voting poll site. With early voting for New York City's first major ranked choice election beginning on Saturday, June 12, community members are joining together to celebrate the expanded voting opportunities for New Yorkers.

Rank the Vote has partnered with over 750 organizations to conduct over 450 RCV trainings over the last year. Ranked choice voting gives voters the opportunity to rank as many as five candidates in order of preference. If no candidate wins more than 50 percent of first choice votes, the candidate that came in last is eliminated and voters' second choice votes are distributed. This repeats until there's a majority winner. In the 2021 election, RCV applies to all primary races for City Council, Borough President, Comptroller, Public Advocate, and Mayor.