Ranked Choice Voting

Gov. Mike DeWine signed a ban on ranked choice voting in Ohio on Tuesday.

A handful of Ohio communities were considering instituting ranked choice voting for local elections.

The ban on ranked choice voting in Ohio has both a Republican and a Democratic sponsor, but the vote in both chambers has split largely along party lines.

The Ohio Senate voted Wednesday afternoon 27-5 to advance Senate Bill 63, in most instances barring electing or eliminating candidates through rounds of vote tabulation.

Ranked choice voting, an alternative method of picking first and second choices in multiple candidate races, isn't in use in Ohio, but is in some other states and cities. There's also a move to try to find out if Ohio voters want to bring it here.

Voters in two states rank candidates in order of their preference, but some would like that to change. We look at the pros and cons of rank-choice voting.

The process is currently being used for statewide races in Alaska and Maine.