NYC Using RCV on Existing Voting System

New York City Voters approved using Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV) in 2021's June Primary.

New Yorkers would be able to Rank upto 5 Candidates on the Ballot, in All Primary and Special Elections for: Mayor; Comptroller; Public Advocate; Five Borough Presidents; and City Council. If Voters still want to Vote for just One Candidate, they can.

New York will have to Upgrade their Voting System, currently the ES&S's DS200 and the Automark for the Disabled which will create the Ballot to be Scanned by the DS200.

So this will require an Upgrade of their Voting System.

The ES&S’s DS 200, will require a Poll Worker to Export the RCV Data to a Memory Card or Flash Drive, which will then be Transported to a Central Location where the Vote Counting System Computer collects All Data on the Election. This will require an Upgrade to a Third Party Counting Application that Aggregates All the Election Data to determine the Election Results.

The Universal RCV Tabulator is Free, Open Source Software for Tabulating RCV Elections. This Tabulator can take in Data from any Voting Machine capable of Exporting a Cast Vote Record and can Tabulate a Single-Winner RCV Election according to the Rules used in any RCV City in the United States. The Tabulator Outputs Results and an Audit File for RCV Elections quickly.

Many places running RCV Elections Count those Elections-by-Hand. While the Counting Process is more Complicated and Time Consuming than the Counting for a Simple Plurality Election, it is still easily done by Hand and is highlighted by Cybersecurity Experts as a more Transparent Counting Process than Machine Counting.

In general, Eection Judges/Clerks start with Sorting out Ballots by what Candidate is Ranked First on those Ballots, then further Sort those by Second, Third, and Later Rankings.

Telluride, Colorado’s Hand Count Procedures are a good example of Best Practices for Hand Counting RCV Elections.

Currently, there are Court Cases to Stop RCV or Delay it.










NYC Wins When Everyone Can Vote! Michael H. Drucker