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This Election, You’ll Rank Your Choices

In a wide-open election, candidates in Brooklyn (and all over NYC) will be running on ranked ballots for the first time

This Election, You’ll Rank Your Choices

This Election, You’ll Rank Your Choices

In a wide-open election, candidates in Brooklyn (and all over NYC) will be running on ranked ballots for the first time

This Election, You’ll Rank Your Choices

Come June in Bushwick, we’re going to be voting in a whole new way. The June 22nd primaries will be the first time voters across New York City will have the chance to test out the new balloting system known as ranked-choice voting. That means that when you pick your nominee for mayor, borough president, public advocate, city comptroller or city council member, you will now have the option to vote for your top five, rather than sticking to just one. 

This marks a huge change to the way we pick our local representatives in New York. Before ranked-choice voting, which was adopted following a 2019 referendum , candidates could win powerful…

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