Lou Jacobson has this summary of advances for ranked choice voting in 2020. Massachusetts voters will vote on whether to use RCV in November 2020. If it passes, Massachusetts will join Maine as states that use it for partisan statewide office.
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Edited By Richard Winger
Condorcet = RCV done right.
I hope it passes in Massachusetts, altho the main effect of RCV in Msss will be on the Democratic primaries. There are hardly enough 3 way races in the general election to matter. In fact, most seats in the Great and Glorious General Court (Mass legislature) go uncontested year after year. I hope the next step is to make to easier for candidates to get on the ballot here so that RCV can have some real value.
Any use of RCV in single-winner election districts brings a one-party system because the 2nd biggest can no longer have random wins when too many good candidates from the one biggest caused the split-vote problem.
To write here that RCV in any single-winner election district is ludicrous.
America is a melting pot and the one-party and the two-party systems are unacceptable.
Fortunately the new pure proportional representation Electoral College had been bringing the correct math for the 539-party system to the 538-member Electoral College in 2020 since 1995.
Independent One 2020
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There’s a Ranked Choice Voting initiative petition in Arkansas right now, but it is really a sham, because it also includes a Top Four Primary, as in only the top four vote getters in the primary move on to the general election ballot. Top Four Primary is not suite as bad as Top Two Primary, but it is still bad, because it is likely to end up with all Democrats and Republicans on the general election ballot. This is like mixing sugar (Ranked Choice Voting) with poison (Top Four Primary) in order to get people to swallow it.
Arkansas got junked but mass will pass.