Everyone agrees this off-year election is the perfect time to try out the new voting systems, with even lighter than usual expected turnout.  But off-year doesn’t mean you don’t have to vote. Don’t save up your energy for 2019, there are important things going on right now. There is a race for Public Advocate as well as several charter revision issues that could affect how we elect officials going forward (no eye-rolling). We talk about one of them, Ranked Choice Voting, where, instead of voting for one candidate, voters would rank the candidates from favorite to least favorite. Our guests will talk about how that would work, and why it might, or might not, be a better way of electing public officials.  They’ll also talk about other changes being suggested to make voting more fair.  Should convicts who have served their time have their voting rights restored?  We will most likely be able to register online in the near future.  Should we be able to vote online?  And most pressing, with all we know about Russian interference in the 2016 election, and the reported desire of so many countries to jump on that bandwagon for 2020, our guests will tell us why, at least in New York, our votes are safe, and our system actually seems to work.