The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board never misses an opportunity to disparage Ranked Choice Voting and did so again on Wed, June 26 in an editorial applauding the Arlington County, VA Board of Supervisors decision last week to use Plurality Voting instead of RCV is the November 2023 General Election.
I posted the following commentary on the WSJ website in response:
Here is an analysis of the June Ranked Choice Voting election in Arlington County, Virginia. Voters ranked their candidates in order of preference, which is very simple. Scroll down to where you see Round 1 through Round 7 in a horizontal box. Then click through the seven rounds of vote counting to see the vote transfer process. This is hard for the public to understand? If so, we have far deeper problems than RCV vs. Plurality Voting. Is the Editorial Board of the WSJ really too dumb to understand this process? No, the WSJ is–again–writing disingenuously about RCV, because they know many of the Republican candidates they support are too unpopular with the electorate to win RCV elections.