In ranked choice voting, the electorate ranks all candidates running in an election from their first to last choice. “I’m positive I got more votes than I would have because of ranked choice voting,” Bond says. Candidates in the 2018 mayoral race in Portland, Maine, also used the ranked choice voting system to appeal to opponents’ supporters as a second choice. Women and people of color together won 81% of all ranked choice elections, up from 67% of the same number of races before ranked choice. Levitt, of Loyola Law School, says he hopes ranked choice voting will at least be considered an option by courts in addressing voting rights issues.