65% of U.S. adults say the way the president is elected should be changed so that the winner of the popular vote nationwide wins the presidency.
65% of U.S. adults say the way the president is elected should be changed so that the winner of the popular vote nationwide wins the presidency.
Obligatory: “Ranked Choice” is a specific use of ranked ballots, and it kinda sucks. It beats what we’re doing now… but anything would.
Ranked Choice Voting ignores the ballot except for the top name and eliminates candidates in rounds until someone gets 50%. So if some guy is literally everybody’s second choice, that guy is eliminated in the first round. If this sounds ridiculous it’s because RCV is a misuse of a multi-winner system, Single Transferable Voting. It picks the first winner… not the best winner.
Condorcet methods like Ranked Pairs choose the candidate who’d win every 1v1 runoff. There is no “it shoulda been” factor. It works the way people automatically assume ranked ballots work.
Or we could do Approval, where you just check all the names you like, and it somehow matches Condorcet results. There is no good reason we’re not already doing this everywhere.