THE BASICS
1️⃣ Create a video that answers the question : “What is a problem that Ranked Choice Voting has solved or could solve.”
2️⃣ The best videos will earn cash prizes.
3️⃣ All videos will be used to advance Ranked Choice Voting, a simple, powerful electoral reform that has the power to vastly improve American public life.
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WHY THIS IS SO IMPORTANT
The way we vote is destroying America. It has created an environment of political polarization that is tearing our communities apart and has yielded gridlocked government in which nothing of lasting good gets done.
Ranked Choice Voting is a simple, non-partisan improvement to the way we vote that is seriously improving elections, politics, and society where it is used. And it can do more.
At its simplest, "RCV" is a better way to vote that allows all voters to 🅰 express their authentic preferences and 🅱 assures that the poll or election winner is actually supported by the majority.
➡️ Here's a Hasan Minhaj video on how it works: www.youtu.be/T-1LHnvbZnk
➡️ Here are some other great videos on RCV: www.fairvotemn.org/video
Once people understand how it works, they commonly want to use Ranked Choice Voting to solve choosing-in-groups problems in all areas of life. They want to use it not just to nominate candidates for the US Presidency 🇺🇸, but also
🌮 What to eat for dinner
🏖 Where to host their next family reunion.
📕 What to read for their next book club.
👩💻 What new product-development projects to focus on.
🏫 Who to elect to the student government.
To spread knowledge of Ranked Choice voting’s impact, we want to help tell those stories. We want to share the ways that Ranked Choice Voting can and has helped solve real problems large and small.
We invite you to help us do so.
Top prize in each Competition Category: $400
Runner up in each Competition Category: $100