Help us improve in just 2 minutes—share your thoughts in our reader survey.

State of Election Administration Legislation 2023 Mid-Year Report: Ranked-choice voting

From Ballotpedia
Jump to: navigation, search




Election Admininstration Legislation VNT.png
State of Election Administration Legislation
2023 Mid-Year Report
Executive summary • About the tracker and methodology • Tracking trends • Specific policy subsets • Ranked-choice voting • Private funding bans • Election audits and qualifications for auditors • Photo ID requirements for in-person and absentee voting • Noncitizen voting
More on 2023 election administration legislation
Enacted bills
Absentee/mail-in voting • Early voting • Electoral systems • Voting rights for convicted felons • Private funding • Primary systems • Redistricting • Voter identification
Select a state from the menu below to learn more about election policy in that state.

June 29, 2023
By Ballotpedia staff

Ranked-choice voting (RCV) is an electoral system in which voters rank candidates in order of preference on their ballots. If a candidate wins a majority of first-preference votes, that candidate is declared the winner. If no candidate wins a majority of first-preference votes, the candidate with the fewest first-preference votes is eliminated. First-preference votes cast for the failed candidate are eliminated, lifting the next-preference choices indicated on those ballots. A new tally is conducted to determine whether any candidate has won a majority of the adjusted votes. The process is repeated until a candidate wins an outright majority.

Heading into 2023, two states prohibited RCV, while 17 states had adopted RCV voting either on the state or local level. In 2023, three more states passed laws prohibiting RCV, and two such bans were vetoed.

Ballotpedia's Election Administration Legislation Tracker

Election tracker site ad.png


State election laws are changing. Keeping track of the latest developments in all 50 states can seem like an impossible job.

Here's the solution: Ballotpedia's Election Administration Legislation Tracker.

Ballotpedia's Election Administration Tracker sets the industry standard for ease of use, flexibility, and raw power. But that's just the beginning of what it can do:

  • Ballotpedia's election experts provide daily updates on bills and other relevant political developments.
  • We translate complex bill text into easy-to-understand summaries written in everyday language.
  • And because it's from Ballotpedia, our Tracker is guaranteed to be neutral, unbiased, and nonpartisan.

About the authors

Joe Greaney is a staff writer on Ballotpedia's Marquee Team.

Janie Valentine is a team lead on Ballotpedia's Marquee Team.

Ballotpedia Editor in Chief Geoff Pallay reviewed the report and provided feedback, as did Managing Editor Cory Eucalitto.

See also

Retrieved from "https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=State_of_Election_Administration_Legislation_2023_Mid-Year_Report:Ranked-choice_voting&oldid=9598223"