The process of selecting as many as five candidates for offices including Mayor, City Comptroller, Public Advocate and City Council is relatively easy once voters determine a pecking order that reflects their preference: fill in the first-choice oval on the ballot with the candidate they like best, the second-choice oval for their secondary selection, and so on.
Those who don't want to list five candidates in order don't have to. The advantage in listing more than one, however, will come into play if the voter's top choice is eliminated from the contest in what could be as many as 12 rounds of winnowing from the 13 mayoral candidates.
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