Monday, Feb. 5 @ 4:20 p.m. / Pollz
RANKED CHOICE POLL! Who Would You Choose to Be President If You Could Better Vote Your Conscience?
LoCO’s first foray into ranked choice voting is still active, but we’re having fun so we thought we’d give this another go.
Next thought experiment: Who would be President of these United States if a) we used ranked choice voting to decide and b) only Humboldt County and its diaspora got to vote? Today — or tomorrrow, really — we will find out! Order the still-breathing presidential candidates below, top to bottom, based on who you’d most like to be President to who you’d least like to be President.
2,404 votes cast.
Poll’s closed!
Results
This poll is closed.
The winner was: Joe Biden.
There were 2,404 ballots cast, so the winner needed to get to 1,203 votes to win.
Here’s how the vote broke down:
ROUND 1
Dean Phillips was eliminated, and those 167 votes were transfered to the voters’ next preference that is still in contention.
ROUND 2
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was eliminated, and those 272 votes were transfered to the voters’ next preference that is still in contention.
ROUND 3
Nikki Haley was eliminated, and those 339 votes were transfered to the voters’ next preference that is still in contention.
ROUND 4
Cornel West was eliminated, and those 449 votes were transfered to the voters’ next preference that is still in contention.
ROUND 5
Donald Trump was eliminated, and those 666 votes were transfered to the voters’ next preference that is still in contention.
ROUND 6
Joe Biden is the winner.
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