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How to rank your ballot
- Vote for your favorite candidate 1st.
- Rank your backup choices (2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th) - only rank candidates you support!
- If your 1st choice loses (last place), your vote simply moves to your next choice.
This repeats until a candidate wins with over 50%.
Make sure your vote counts
Only mark once per column
Try not to skip any rankings
Only mark once per column
The quickest way to have your ballot thrown out is to "overvote" in the first column. An overvote is where multiple candidates are marked at the same rank. The overvote cannot be processed, and everything after the overvote (lower rankings) will be discarded as well. If an overvote is in the first column, the entire ballot for that race is discarded!
Only mark once per row
Try not to skip any rankings
Only mark once per column
Don't rank the same candidate more than once! This does nothing to help that candidate - only your first ranking for them will count - and serves only to waste your additional rankings. However, unlike an overvote, your first ranking of a repeatedly-ranked candidate will still count.
Try not to skip any rankings
Try not to skip any rankings
Try not to skip any rankings
When you skip a ranking, i.e. ranking someone #1, leaving #2 blank, and then ranking someone else #3 - since you'll just be wasting some of the five columns (maximum) given to you on the ballot. A single skipped ranking will not result in any portion of your ballot being discarded. However, while one skipped ranking will be ignored, two skips in a row will be treated similarly to an overvote, and any rankings after the two skips will be discarded.