The prospect of making Annapolis the second Maryland jurisdiction to use ranked-choice voting in local elections drew 20 residents and advocates to speak out Monday at the Annapolis City Council meeting.

Most of the speakers supported proposed legislation to establish the mechanism in Annapolis.

The ordinance, sponsored by Ward 1 Alderman Harry Huntley, would make party primaries and general elections in city elections determined by ranked choice voting.

Under ranked choice voting, voters rank multiple candidates on their ballot in order of preference. When votes are first tallied, they are counted based on the top-ranked candidate on each ballot. If no candidate earns a majority of the votes, the votes from the candidate with the fewest number of votes get sent to each ballot’s secon

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