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By Shant Shahrigian<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

As ranked-choice voting comes under fire from some elected officials, dozens of candidates for local offices have come out in favor of the process, in which voters will pick candidates in order of preference instead of choosing just one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sixty-three candidates, most of them first-timers, on Tuesday called on the city to stick to its schedule of debuting ranked-choice voting, or RCV, in time for next year\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRCV is a pro-voter reform that will lift up communities primarily made up of minority residents, while opening the door to first-time candidates like many of us,\u201d stated candidates including mayoral contender Dianne Morales<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They called for the city to devote $10 million to educate voters about how ranked choice works, up from the $1 million currently allocated to the effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week<\/a>, members of the Council\u2019s Black, Latino and Asian Caucus argued the city doesn\u2019t have enough time and resources to inform New Yorkers about the new method \u2014 and stands to disenfranchise already disadvantaged communities \u2014 even though voters last year overwhelmingly approved ranked-choice voting in an amendment to the City Charter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They were echoing criticism from Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, whom some members of the BLA Caucus had endorsed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FILE – In this Sept. 23 photo, a summary of Ballot Question 2 on the Nov. 3 Massachusetts election ballot known as a “Ranked Choice Voting” law is displayed in Marlborough, Mass., in a handbook provided to voters by the Secretary of the Commonwealth. (Bill Sikes\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A voter carries her ballot to be scanned at a polling place in New York’s Chinatown neighborhood. A ballot measure will give New York City residents a chance to institute ranked choice voting in primaries and special elections. (Richard Drew\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Upper Manhattan City Council candidate Corey Ortega, a former top staffer for the BLA Caucus, put the disagreement in generational terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s almost like the houses of Capulets and Montagues with the City Council candidates \u2014 old school versus new school,\u201d said Ortega, alluding to the feuding families in \u201cRomeo and Juliet.\u201d \u201cWe have the same concern, outreach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe difference is, I believe it can be done if properly funded.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under ranked-choice voting, if no candidate wins a majority of first-choice votes, a process of elimination ensues. The candidate with the fewest first-choice votes is discarded, and people who voted for him or her get their second choices counted, instead. 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