With cries of “make elections fairer,” advocates are pushing for ranked-choice voting as a solution to the rampant partisanship and polarization that currently plague the United States. Their model, touted as a democratic innovation, undermines the democratic principles of our electoral process and, ironically, often results in the disenfranchisement of voters.
Ranked-choice voting differs from traditional election models in that voters do not pick one candidate for each office. Instead, they rank all the candidates running for each office based on their preferences.
Instead of broader representation, ranked-choice voting causes chaos, uncertainty, and a loss of faith that a person’s vote matters.
Under ranked-choice voting, if a single candidate is ranked first on more than 50% of ballots, that candidate automatically wins. But if no candidate receives at least 50% of support as the first preference, then the lowest-ranked candidates in the race are removed and the voters who chose them as their first option are then reassigned to the remaining candidates based on those voters’ second and perhaps even third preferences, depending on the number of candidates in the race. […]
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