DC vot­ers to decide on ranked choice vot­ing in Novem­ber

The Dis­trict of Colum­bia Board of Elec­tions has cer­ti­fied for November’s bal­lot Ini­tia­tive 83, which would estab­lish ranked choice vot­ing in Wash­ing­ton, D.C., and allow inde­pen­dents to vote in pri­ma­ry elec­tions.
The Board of Elec­tions on Fri­day cleared the way for the ini­tia­tive to appear on the Nov. 5 gen­er­al elec­tion bal­lot after the Yes on 83 cam­paign col­lect­ed over 40,000 sig­na­tures and sub­mit­ted them to the board last month. Near­ly 28,000 of the sig­na­tures were val­i­dat­ed by the Board of Elec­tions, exceed­ing the required thresh­old by 5,235.

If passed, Ini­tia­tive 83 would imple­ment a ranked choice vot­ing sys­tem, allow­ing dis­trict vot­ers to list up to five can­di­dates for elect­ed office accord­ing to their pref­er­ence. 
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