"There is a constant push for ranked choice voting. Don’t fall for it..."

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"...In 2019, Hans von Spakovsky wrote:

“Think about what ranked choice voting destroys. 

• It destroys your clear and knowing choices as a political consumer. 

"Let us call it the supermarket contemplation. 

In reality, you are choosing one elected official to represent you, just like you might choose one type of steak sauce to buy when you are splurging for steaks. 

At the supermarket you ponder whether to buy A1, Heinz 57, HP, or the really cheap generic brand you have never tried.

Now imagine if, instead, you had to rank-order all the steak sauces—even the ones you dislike—and at checkout the cashier swaps out your bottle of Heinz 57 with the cheap generic you ranked dead last. Why? Well, the majority of shoppers also down-voted it, but there was no clear front-runner, so the generic snuck up from behind with enough down ballot picks to win. In fact, in this ranked choice supermarket, you might even have helped the lousy generic brand win.”

• Such a system would present many opportunities to rig the electoral system.
• It also falls victim to something called ballot exhaustion...