It’s a poison pill to force strategic voting and push people towards candidates that are backed by money. Colorado turned down ranked choice voting, and a lot of it was due to a similar single-vote primary system being packaged with it to make it not work well for actually electing candidates the people want. Voting reform activists knew this and made sure enough people knew that ranked choice elections was a trojan horse for a bad single vote primary system.
Ranked choice voting has become my top policy issue
Long-term it’s the most important change we could make. It’s what can get us candidates people actually like, rather than constantly voting for the “electable” one with corporate backers
It’s a poison pill to force strategic voting and push people towards candidates that are backed by money. Colorado turned down ranked choice voting, and a lot of it was due to a similar single-vote primary system being packaged with it to make it not work well for actually electing candidates the people want. Voting reform activists knew this and made sure enough people knew that ranked choice elections was a trojan horse for a bad single vote primary system.
Ranked choice voting has become my top policy issue
Long-term it’s the most important change we could make. It’s what can get us candidates people actually like, rather than constantly voting for the “electable” one with corporate backers