Brooklyn gives thumbs up to ranked choice voting
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams also scored a big victory on Election Day
Ranked choice voting is coming and New York City elections will never be the same.
Ballot Proposal #1, which called for the City Charter to be amended to make way for a complete overhaul of the city’s election system to allow voters to rank their candidate choices numerically instead of voting for just one person, was approved by an overwhelming margin by voters in the Nov. 5 election.
The ranked voting proposal garnered 473,948 “yes” votes citywide, according to preliminary results released by the New York City Board of Elections. Far fewer New Yorkers, 170,529, voted “No’ on the proposal.