re: In Bid to Rig Future Elections, Raskin Reintroduces Ranked Choice Voting Act

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Because this isn't the Heisman voting you idiot.

Explain ONE good reason for it

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Republicans would win more elections because they are more splintered than the Dems, who tend to be lock-step.

Now you explain ONE good reason why it is bad? Please reciprocate, respectfully, sir.

I'll give you a few.

1- it gives the illusion of "one" ballot when in practice some voters' preference influence the final outcome more than others do. Ranking multiple candidates will ultimately result in more impact later on than it won't.

2- What the current electoral voting promotes is the candidate that most people actually chose. RCV will result in substantially more candidates that survive elimination rounds and even winners being who most voters opposed. This fundamentally undermines clear public will and promotes algorithmic survivability.

3- It completely destroys transparency in the voting process, which is built to be simple and fair and is already under scrutiny (mail in ballots and the fraud that obviously took place). RCV lives in complex tabulation rules and will lead to voter confusion on how or even if their vote was counted.

This is genuinely just off the top without hardly any research but even then, supporting this is un-American in the most basic way, which is our right to vote.