RCV123 Ranked-Choice Voting

Finally - a free and easy way for civic groups and schools to hold ranked-choice elections on paper ballots. 

The RCV123 app will quickly set up, print and scan ballots, and calculate the rounds of counting at the click of a button.

Schools, neighborhood civic associations, church councils, chambers of commerce, PTAs, PTOs, clubs, groups, meetings, non-profits, local political parties and political conventions can all hold leadership elections with the app.

Ranked choice can be used to find a consensus on any group decision.

Though the RCV123 app is only for non-government elections at the community level, scanned paper ballots are used in 90% of official voting machines in the US. So RCV123 is a great way to educate citizens about official ranked-choice voting. 

Paper ballots - unlike on-line elections - are common-sense to audit. They can be re-scanned by anyone as many times as they like, or they can be hand-counted.

RCV123 is not a secure voting system. Each group needs to decide their own process for who gets ballots, how they are turned in, who does the scanning, amount of vote anonymity, and how ballots get stored, etc. RCV123 just provides a basic tool for you to use with the overall election policies and practices of your group. Our system can work with a mail-in or drive-thru election processes. Further, blank and/or completed paper ballots can be distributed or collected by email as photos or PDFs.

RCV123 is an IRS 501(c)(3) educational non-profit. Our mission is to educate citizens about ranked-choice voting. Supporters believe RCV is easy to use, captures a voters true intentions, opens the process to new candidates and coalitions and results in more consensus outcomes. 

Ranked voting is used to elect government leaders statewide in Maine, as well as in Minneapolis, St. Paul, San Francisco, Oakland and several other cities, counties and towns, and is growing rapidly. It is also used for some offices in Ireland, Australia and other nations.

Learn more by trying RCV in the groups you or your friends and family belong to, and decide for yourself if you support using RCV in official elections.