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RZ26 - The Ranked Choice is the Best Choice Amendment

WHEREAS The Chancery currently uses the First-Past-The-Post method of voting to conduct Senate elections, and

WHEREAS First-Past-The-Post voting is responsible for a variety of electoral ills, such as producing winners who do not actually have majority support, and forcing voters to cast ballots strategically instead of supporting the candidate they actually prefer the most, and

WHEREAS We all know how First-Past-The-Post voting is working out for our giant friendly neighbor this election cycle, and

WHEREAS Ranked Choice Voting (aka Instant Runoff Voting or Alternative Voting) is far superior to First-Past-The-Post and eliminates all of the aforementioned ills, because it allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference, and 

WHEREAS This video is an brilliant explanation of why Ranked Choice Voting is so good


THEREFORE Section 6 of Article IV, which currently reads;
 

is amended to read;