What is ranked choice voting?
This article is a great overview.
What’s happening in my state?
The same article lists some things, and Wikipedia has more details.
Here’s what on the ballot this year:
- Alaska is voting to repeal RCV
- Arizona is voting on a proposition for non-partisan primaries and RCV
- Colorado is voting on using RCV
- District of Columbia is voting on using RCV
- Idaho is voting on using RCV
- Missouri is voting on banning RCV altogether
- Montana is voting on a proposition for non-partisan primaries
- Nevada is voting on using RCV for federal and state elections
- Oregon is voting on using RCV for federal and state elections
- South Dakota is voting on non-partisan top 2 primaries
- Texas has a group working on ranked choice voting
Register to vote, check your registration, make sure you’re in a position to fix voting. It’s important. It’s not as far away as you think.
Cool. I guess it’s different in cities - with more members per constituency - than in the sparsely populated west? Anyway I’m wondering how can the irish help influence the US - which seems to be the origin of this community (?). Also could help France - if they used a STV like Ireland, they wouldn’t need all those uncomfortable coalitions and désistements (withdrawals) before the second round (which wouldn’t be necessary). France also needs MMCs (as they had in the past) to help reduce the urban-rural polarisation.