How Ranked Choice Voting Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 20 September 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In the US, winner-take-all voting has created A LOT of political polarization. But what if rather than voting for one candidate, you could rank all of them so if your first choice doesn’t win, your vote goes to your second choice? So long, polarization!

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.2	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from House Stuff Works.com.
0:41.4	Good day and welcome to the podcast.
0:43.4	I'm Josh Clark, there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, there's Jerry.
0:47.7	The trio is reunited like Peaches and Herb and Cream.
0:53.4	Yeah, didn't Peaches and Herb sing reunited and it feels so good?
0:59.4	Yeah, but I don't know how your Clapton figures in.
1:01.8	Well, there's three of us here.
1:03.3	Oh, gotcha.
1:05.1	And Clapton was an all-cream.
1:06.4	I mean, Ginger Baker was a force to be reckoned with too.
1:10.0	Good point, he still is.
1:12.0	Is he still alive?
1:13.7	Unless he died recently, I saw a great documentary about him.
1:17.5	Yeah, I haven't actually watched it.
1:19.0	Is it good?
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