Clear Ballot is proud to offer solutions for Ranked Choice Voting contests. Our ClearVote suite supports all of the most common types of ranked choice tabulation, including single-winner contests and multi-winner contests, and also supports multiple ways to handle voter errors, tie breaking, threshold calculation, and more.

Key Offerings

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Accessibility
  • ClearVote includes enhancements that seamlessly integrate RCV contests into the voting experience for voters with disabilities
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Ballot Design
  • Laying out an RCV ballot is well integrated into the ClearDesign process and offers all the customization and features election officials are familiar with. 
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Tabulation
  • Clear Ballot's vote visualization and write-in tool can support RCV contests.
  • Tabulation of RCV contests is done by RCTab, which is included in ClearCount. 
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Support for Multiple RCV Styles

Single-winner, majority determines winner

Elects one winner. Eliminate candidates one-by-one or using batch elimination until a candidate emerges with a majority. Candidate with the most votes at the end wins.

Bottoms-up

 Eliminate candidates until the desired number of winners is reached, then stop. Bottoms up does not transfer surplus votes.

Multi-winner, allow only one winner per round

Elects multiple winners. Elect and transfer the surplus vote of only the candidate with the most votes if multiple candidates exceed the winning threshold in a round of counting.

Bottoms-up using percentage threshold

Elects multiple winners. Eliminate candidates until the remaining candidates have a vote share equal to or greater than a specified percentage of the vote.

Multi-winner, allow multiple winners per round

Elects multiple winners. Elect and transfer the surplus vote of all candidates crossing the winning threshold if multiple candidates exceed the winning threshold in a round of counting.

Multi-pass IRV

Elects multiple winners. Eliminate candidates one-by-one or using batch elimination until only two candidates remain. Candidate with the most votes at the end wins. Run a new set of rounds with any winning candidates ignored.

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