(This is for the 2021 New York City mayoral Democratic and Republican primaries on June 22, 2021). I am so excited to participate in a ranked choice election. I genuinely believe that we would have a different president today (and not Trump) if we had a ranked choice election for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.  
 
So, with that in mind, I am excited and feel very engaged with a process that might just represent my political priorities better than voting processes of the past.

I had no idea where to start with the very crowded field, but was happy to see this tweet a couple weeks ago from a reporter at The City:

and here's the link for the questionnaire

I followed the questionnaire and got accustomed to who everyone was, where they stood, any statements or policy promises they've made. Super helpful!

...and you can use a little something called GoFullPage (on Chrome or Edge) to take a screenshot of your entire questionnaire 😏 for safekeeping

Here were my mayor matches:

With this starting point, I did some reading and poking around to flesh out what would really be the best voting strategy here.

A couple tips I picked up along the way:
1. only rank people you would enjoy/tolerate in the mayor's office, don't rank them at all if you can't stand the idea of them:

https://twitter.com/s_m_i/status/1403071034530598916?s=21

2. But at the same time, try to max out your ballot with candidates because you could end up having an exhausted ballot:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/us/politics/ranked-choice-voting-new-york-mayoral-race.html

If you want to know my final rankings for my mayor vote, email me and I'd be happy to share what I decided and why 👩🏻‍⚖️

And here's a ranked choice simulation suggested by De Blasio that helps demonstrates how this all will work: https://app.rankedvote.co/elections/7568/Best-NYC-Pizza-Topping/7554/vote

Make sure to click into results to see how the voting ends up picking a winner ⭐🍎⭐