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Walter Olson
Walter Olson

Senior Fellow, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute
Megan McArdle
Megan McArdle

Columnist, Washington Post
David Daley
David Daley

Independent Author

John Ketcham
John Ketcham

Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

The dramatic outcome of the New York City mayoral primary, in which Zohran Mamdani outpaced former governor Andrew Cuomo and then clinched the win with second-choice votes from other candidates, has drawn attention to the city’s use of ranked-choice voting. Several other major cities also use ranked-choice voting, as do Maine and Alaska. What lessons does the New York City primary hold for this and other electoral reforms?

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