Charleston, W.Va. – WV Secretary of State Kris Warner’s 2025 legislative agenda as the state’s chief elections officer advanced this week with the WV Legislature and the governor approving Senate Bill 490 which prohibits conducting any state, county, or local elections from using the ranked choice voting method.
Ranked choice voting is a process that allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference, rather than picking a single candidate for each race. If no candidate wins a majority of first-preference votes, the candidate with the fewest preference votes is eliminated and those votes are redistributed to the remaining candidates based on the voter’s next preference. The process is repeated until a candidate receives a majority of the votes.
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