Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) is a voting method where voters can rank each candidate in order of preference instead of picking just one. If a candidate receives more than 50% of first-choice votes, that candidate wins. If no candidate receives more than 50% of the first-choice votes, then the vote redistribution begins: the last-place candidate is eliminated, and each voter who chose the last-place candidate as their first choice has their vote redistributed to their next choice. This process of elimination and re-counting continues until one candidate has received over 50% of the votes from the remaining active ballots and is declared the winner. To learn more about how RCV works in practice, the different types of RCV, places that use it, and the arguments for and against it, click the FAQs and Resources tab.