This year, the landscape of New York City elections is changing. Ranked choice voting will debut right as Bushwick voters gear up for the primary elections on June 22nd, when residents will elect a city council member to represent District 37, which consists of parts of Bushwick, East New York, Cypress HIlls, Ocean Hill and Brownsville. The ballot measure will allow New Yorkers to rank their favorites from first to fifth choice: this deviates from the conventional model that limits voting to a single candidate from each party, opening the door for spread out support to less established candidates. Rank the Vote NYC, a coalition of non-profit labor unions that supports ranked choice voting describes the process as such: “If no one wins with a majority (more than 50 percent), the candidate that came in last is defeated and voters’ second choice votes get counted.”