Oregon voters will decide next year whether to implement ranked choice voting for all state and federal elections.
who don’t play to either party’s fringe and work instead to appeal to the broadest number of people. They’ve also said the model helps to draw in voters turned off by the two-party system and limit negative campaigning by candidates.
A handful of cities and counties in Oregon — Corvallis and Benton County, for example — already utilize ranked choice voting for local elections, while Portland, the state’s largest city, has decided to use the model for elections for mayor and city council starting next year.
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