Time to Vote for Your Electric Truck Names

There are many helpful explainer videos that show how ranked choice works. Minnesota Public Radio, the Board of Elections New York City, and the Academy Awards, among many others entities have videos explaining this style of voting.

When the naming election begins, you will rank names by your order of your preference. The candidate you like most will be your 1st Choice, your next favorite will be your 2nd Choice and so on.

The vote counting begins by first tallying all of the 1st Choice votes.

If a candidate, or a truck name in this case, receives a majority of 1st Choice votes, the election is over and the one that has received a majority has won.

To be clear, a majority means they received more than half of all the votes cast. It does not mean earning just the most votes in this first round.

If no candidate receives a majority after counting the first choice votes, then the ranked choice portion begins.

The candidate with the lowest first choice vote totals will be eliminated. The process then looks at the second choice from the ballots that picked the eliminated candidate. The votes from the eliminated candidate are then distributed to the second choice those voters made. (Watching the videos really helps explain this part of the process.)

This process repeats itself until one candidate has finally received a majority of the votes.

If at the final elimination, when it's down to just two candidates, and if no one has earned a majority of the support, the candidate with the most votes at this phase is declared the winner.

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