In all of these threads, nobody on this board seems to be able to articulate what's wrong with Ranked Choice Voting other than their preferred candidates have lost in some Ranked Choice Voting election.

Only remotely reasonable argument I've heard is that if someone cheats the election, it's more data and a more complicated process, so it could be easier to obfuscate the cheating.

IMO it would create a situation much more representative to the will of the people. First Past the Post elections aren't. Obviously, this depends on the election being legitimately run.

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Posted by deeprig9

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Posted on 12/13/22 at 1:38 pm to efrad

I have been told that ranked choice voting would have resulting in Trump losing the 2016 primary with either Cruz or Rubio winning it.

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Posted by Indefatigable

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Posted on 12/13/22 at 2:47 pm to efrad

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In all of these threads, nobody on this board seems to be able to articulate what's wrong with Ranked Choice Voting other than their preferred candidates have lost in some Ranked Choice Voting election.

Lisa Murkowski has broken a lot of people on here in this regard. Even though she won the most votes in the first round votes as well.

Peltola also didn’t win because of ranked choice voting. She won because Begich’s supporters didn’t vote for Palin. That reality would have existed in a traditional election format as well.

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Posted by DerkaDerka

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Posted on 12/14/22 at 2:09 pm to efrad

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In all of these threads, nobody on this board seems to be able to articulate what's wrong with Ranked Choice Voting other than their preferred candidates have lost in some Ranked Choice Voting election.

Only remotely reasonable argument I've heard is that if someone cheats the election, it's more data and a more complicated process, so it could be easier to obfuscate the cheating.

IMO it would create a situation much more representative to the will of the people. First Past the Post elections aren't. Obviously, this depends on the election being legitimately run.

Agreed. I suspect there is a number of ppl against it that don't really know much about it.

The drawbacks that I am aware of are more along the lines of implementation. Complication and obfuscation sure, it also brings in fractional votes if that is how it was implemented in the software.

I am not on board with the argument that ppl not filling in choices beyond their first choice as being a flaw of the system. That's just plain sad on the voters.

This post was edited on 12/14/22 at 2:13 pm

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Posted by jimmy the leg