2024 Primary Endorsements – 17 March 2024
US Senate: Bob Casey
US House of Representatives: Bhavini Patel
PA Attorney General: Eugene DePasquale
PA Auditor General: Malcolm Kenyatta
PA Treasurer: Ryan Bizzarro
PA Senate District 43: Jay Costa
PA House District 23: Dan Frankel
PA House district 34: Abigail Salisbury
Candidate appearance times: →Jack Stollsteimer at 4m52s running for PA Attorney General. →Mark Pinsley at 11m24s running for PA Auditor General. →Ryan Bizzarro at 15m50s running for PA Treasurer. →Jared Solomon at 20m54s running for PA Attorney General. →Jay Costa at 26m42s running for PA State Senate. →Abigail Salisbury at 30m33s running for PA State Representative. →Summer Lee at 37m06s running for US House of Representatives. →Malcolm Kenyatta at 44m45s running for PA Auditor General. →Kier Bradford Grey at 50m13s running for PA Attorney General. →Erin McClelland at 57m17s running for PA Treasurer. →Joe Khan at 1h03m05s running for PA Attorney General. →Eugene DePasquale at 1h10m08s running for PA Attorney General. →Dan Frankel at 1h18m00s running for PA State Representative. →Ashley Comans at 1h24m45s running for PA State Representative. →Bhavini Patel at 1h35m45s running for US House of Representatives.
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The 14th Ward Independent Democratic Club uses Preferential, sometimes called Ranked-Choice, Voting.
HOW PREFERENTIAL VOTING WORKS
The Club uses Preferential Voting (sometimes referred to as “Instant Runoff” or “Ranked Choice” voting) to endorse candidates for offices in which one person will be chosen for endorsement. Members voting in the annual endorsement meeting are asked to rank candidates in their preferred order (1, 2, 3, etc.). Candidates must receive a minimum of 40% of the ballots cast in their race to receive the Club’s endorsement. Usually a candidate is endorsed with the first-place votes.
In cases where no candidate receives 40% of the first-place votes, the candidate receiving the fewest first place votes is eliminated from consideration for endorsement. The eliminated candidate’s ballots are then recounted. The eliminated candidate’s 2nd-choice votes are then redistributed to the remaining candidates according to the voters’ second choices, and those 2nd place votes are added to the remaining candidates’ first place votes. If no candidate reaches the 40% threshold after the second count, the candidate with the lowest total in that count is eliminated and her/his ballots are redistributed to the remaining candidates according to the voters’ highest choice among the remaining candidates.
