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Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for August 15, 2023
The Number of the Day columns published on Ballotpedia reflect the views of the author.
August 15, 2023: This year, state legislators have introduced 106 ranked-choice voting (RCV) bills compared to 44 in 2022. Ranked-choice voting is a system in which voters rank candidates by preference on their ballots.
Seventy-four (74) of the bills introduced this year support the use of RCV in at least some elections, compared to 33 in 2022. Seventeen (17) bills introduced in 2023 oppose the use of RCV, compared to four bills in 2022. The remaining 15 bills amend existing RCV laws or commission studies of RCV.
Each weekday, Scott Rasmussen’s Number of the Day explores interesting and newsworthy topics at the intersection of culture, politics, and technology.
- August 14, 2023-51% of voters favor a ban on automatic voter registration at DMVs
- August 11, 2023-Nine states have indirect ballot initiative processes
- August 10, 2023-53% of voters believe passing a budget that increases taxes would be worse than a government shutdown
- August 9, 2023-78 years ago, an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki
- August 8, 2023-54% of voters who received the COVID vaccine did so because they wanted to
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