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The Pros and Cons of Ranked Choice Voting
TLDR Ranked choice voting is a voting system that allows voters to rank all of the candidates presented to them, reducing extremism and opening up elections to third-party candidates. However, it is more confusing and time-consuming than traditional voting systems and potentially violates the secrecy of votes. While it has been adopted in a few locations around the world, its widespread adoption is still uncertain.
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Ranked Choice Voting is a voting system that is being implemented in more jurisdictions around the world, and it is different from voting for a single candidate.
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Voting systems can lead to situations where the candidate with the most votes doesn't actually represent the majority of voters.
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Ranked choice voting has been attempted as a voting reform for centuries, with early experiments in Catalonia and Germany, and the first implementation in Tasmania, Australia in 1890.
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Ranked choice voting is a system where voters rank all of the candidates presented to them, and it is used to resolve elections with multiple candidates.
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Ranked choice voting allows voters to have their preferences counted even if their first choice candidate doesn't win, reduces extremism by allowing voters to rank candidates they don't like lower, and opens up elections to third-party candidates.
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Ranked choice voting is more confusing and time-consuming than traditional first-pass-the-post voting, potentially violates the secrecy of votes, and is currently only used in a few locations around the world.
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Ranked choice voting has been fully adopted on the state level in only two states in the United States, but has been adopted at the city level in several places, and while it is still being experimented with in many jurisdictions, it is unclear how widespread it will eventually become.
