Comment on YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.

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chaogomu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I’m an opponent of RCV for none of those reasons.

No, I hate it because it’s deeply flawed and provides zero of the benefits that proponents claim it does.

Rather than help third parties, it actually hurts them.

The inventor of the system, created it as an example of a bad voting system. This was in 1790.

There’s far more ballot spoilage when compared to any other system.

It doesn’t eliminate the spoiler effect, just kicks it down the ballot a bit,

It’s confusing to count, which has led to the wrong candidate being sworn in.

It requires centralized counting, which is a single point of failure or attack.

And finally there are better, simpler systems that actually do the things that RCV proponents claim RCV

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