Ranked Choice Voting

Ranked choice voting (RCV) is a voting system where the voters rank order the candidates using a grid on the ballot that has the candidates’ names down the left side and columns labeled first, second, third, etc. across the top. Voters fill in the ovals in the grid to “rank” order the various candidates. 

The problem with RCV is that its structure can arbitrarily drop the candidate with the most support, so we could very easily end up with a mayor who is not the people’s preferred choice. But it does pretty much guarantee some finality. (The only problem is if it ends up with a tie at any point, which is highly unlikely with tens of thousands of voters.)