LINCOLN- Under a proposal by Senator John McCollister, voters in the Cornhusker State to rank their preferences in elections for the Legislature, governor, Congress and the Senate. The bill (LB125) would put ranked-choice voting in place in Nebraska for elections to those offices where three or more candidates are running.

McCollister told the Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee he believed ranked-choice voting would increase voter satisfaction, provide for efficiencies by eliminating the need to hold separate runoff elections and ensure fairness in elections. The system allows voters to rank candidates by preference — they would indicate their top preference in the first column, second preference in the next column, and so on — with any candidate gaining more than 50% of the votes being declared the winner.

If no candidate gains a majority after the first-preference votes are counted, the candidate with the fewest first-preference votes is eliminated, elevating the second-preference votes on those ballots. The process would be repeated until a candidate wins a simple majority of the votes cast.

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