Jack Cunningham

Razor thin margin separate crowded NJ-11 candidates. Ranked-choice voting would fix that | Opinion When 11 candidates split the vote in NJ's 11th district primary, the 'winner' will represent a district where 70% of voters preferred someone else. There's a better way to run elections.

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“No matter who you support in this race, we should all be able to agree on this: That’s not good enough. If 70% of your own party prefers another candidate, that’s not exactly a victory.”

Rank the Desserts with us in Gloucester tomorrow at 6pm: www.voterchoicenj.org/gloucester_t...

Here are the sweet treats we’ll be voting on. Help us find out which one is the best!

Jersey City and Hoboken runoff turnout plummets. Ranked choice voting can help. - FairVote In 2025, two major New Jersey cities – Jersey City and Hoboken – held runoff elections for local offices. Turnout declined in every contest.

In Tuesday's runoff for Jersey City mayor, turnout fell nearly 50%.

#RankedChoiceVoting would let voters pick majority winners on a single, high-turnout Election Day. https://fairvote.org/jersey-city-and-hoboken-runoff-turnout-plummets-ranked-choice-voting-can-help/

Check out @vcnj.bsky.social , they are a bunch of volunteers working on RCV in NJ!

Assemblyman Joe Danielsen Introduces Legislation to Establish Ranked-Choice Voting For Primary & General Elections In New Jersey - Insider NJ Somerset – Assemblyman Joe Danielsen (D-17) released the following statement: “This morning, I was proud to partner with Senator Andrew Zwicker in introducing legislation to establish ranked-choice vo...

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“This morning, I was proud to partner with Senator Andrew Zwicker in introducing legislation to establish ranked-choice voting in the State of New Jersey for Primary and General Elections.”

Jersey City and Hoboken want to ditch their run-offs for ranked-choice voting. What’s the difference and why are these towns pushing NJ to allow ranked-choice voting? www.voterchoicenj.org/jersey_city_...

New Poll Shows Three-Way Dead Heat in Jersey City Mayoral Race A new poll conducted by Hart Research between October 14 and 16 finds the Jersey City mayoral race locked in a statistical tie, with former governor Jim McGreevey, Bill O’Dea, […]

We need ranked choice voting so bad in Jersey City.

@vcnj.bsky.social is working on it. The JC city council actually passed an ordinance saying “when NJ lets us use it, we will let JC voters decide if they want to switch on the next ballot”.

big gay = big transit

Happy NYC Cast Vote Record day to all who celebrate.

YouTube video by The Choice The Choice Movie - Ranked Choice Voting in Portland

Great documentary about ranked-choice voting in Portland. In New Jersey, we would use this form of proportional ranked-choice voting for our many multi-winner elections: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJEK...

Who will lead the charge in introducing ranked-choice voting to the love island finale

They exist! The NYTimes found at least two of them. We’ll know exactly how common this was on July 15th when the NYC BOE releases full ballot results.

For that 8%, RCV groups in NYC should target some education toward making that point more clear.

For that 9% an easy way to help is to allow for shared slogans / ballot grouping to reward coalitions.

Other answers:
9%: "I didn't know enough about the other candidates."
8%: "I was afraid that ranking other candidates would hurt my preferred candidate."
4%: "I didn't know I could rank candidates."
0%: "I didn't understand how to fill out the ballot."

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New polling from the NYC primary relevant to this discussion:

Those who only voted for a single candidate were asked why they did so, the overwhelming majority, 87%, said "That was the only candidate I liked," an answer selected by no less than 69% in any demographic group or part of the city.

RCV Deep Dive: A 2025 NYC Local Primary Analysis

On July 2nd at 8PM, we’ll dive into the full ranked-choice voting results from NYC (& what it means for us in NJ). Whether you are new to RCV or if you are closely following every beat of the NYC local elections, we have you covered: www.voterchoicenj.org/vcnj_deep_di...

Loving the love for Brad Lander. It’s updated me a bit on RCV. RCV could create more Brad Landers, more coalition builders. A counterweight to the extremely individualistic incentives of executive and single member district legislative elections

2025 June NYC Election: 3 Takeaways for RCV

Today, our friends across the Hudson River are heading to the polls for New York City's third ranked-choice voting (RCV) election. While the final results won't be known immediately, here are three key things we're watching: www.voterchoicenj.org/2025_june_ny...

Or there was a heat wave, and they wanted to get out of the non-air conditioned polling center as fast as possible, as is the case today/tomorrow.

I could see that being the case in other jurisdictions though.

I hear this one online but not in person from voters, (yes, including seniors). I’ve brought this up directly to many different community leaders and they have generally cited the increase in popularity of mail-in voting for at risk groups as the mitigating factor.

There are people across the river in NY who only like one candidate, or have the weirdest order possible. There are also people who think that ranking more candidates hurts their favorite.

It is impossible to tell the difference looking at raw voting results.

One thing I’d add: “Leakage” and ballot exhaustion can be an accurate form of political expression OR it can be a system of not enough voter education.

That weird block voting system is what we tried to use to pack the House of Representatives with and is the reason multi-member districts were banned. So, sorry to all of my fellow proportional election fans for that.

It depends a lot on what the status quo is.

Lots of local NJ elections would use proportional RCV (aka STV), so that mitigates concerns with ballot exhaustion.

And because of the bizarre block voting system we use, we already have issues with bullet voting.

Education / campaigning can also solve this, but not as cleanly. Canvassers for both Cuomo and Mamdani right now are stressing that you should rank them somewhere to prevent the other candidate from winning.

And even with most run-off elections if you factor in turnout.

The best way to make more votes count is to make it proportional, but frankly giving voters the option to rank more candidates can also help (insane that San Francisco only let you rank three people in elections with 15+ candidates).

NJ Primary Results Show Why We Need Ranked-Choice Voting

Some initial results for the New Jersey Gubernatorial Primary are in, and the vote-splitting we see is an all too common, troubling story: www.voterchoicenj.org/nj_gubernato...

N.J.'s crowded primary field signals the need for ranked choice voting | Opinion With five Republican candidates and six Democrats, a relatively small number of voters can determine the nominees from each party. But what if voters could rank the field in order?

When New Jersey Democrats go to vote today, they will have to choose one candidate from a field of six. Republicans will choose their favorite among five candidates. This race is a prime example of how RCV could be used to ensure election winners truly represent a majority of voters.