(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.
Research, research, research
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:
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: