They’ll be presented with ballot measures that would move their states to ranked-choice voting, in some states (most problematically, Colorado and Nevada) combined, toxically, with jungle elections.
Besides, there are far more effective ways to empower perspectives that are outside those of our two major parties than ranked-choice voting or jungle elections.
Ranked-choice voting in a general election, much less a jungle general election, also tends to favor candidates with political profiles so mushy that they’re the third, fourth, or fifth choice of the above-mentioned loyalists.
The one way in which ranked-choice voting doesn’t weaken political parties is when it’s used in party primaries.
I’ve highlighted the toxicity of this combination because there’s no surer way to diminish our already diminished political parties, which provide us with our also diminished menus of ideological and programmatic definition, than to convert our elections into ranked-choice jungles.
He’s become a force in Colorado politics, funding a multimillion-dollar campaign for his initiative, which will be put to voters this November, to establish a ranked-choice jungle voting process that will enable him to run for governor in 2026 in the absence of party primaries, which there’s no way he could possibly win.
Come Election Day, voters in a handful of states will not only make clear who they’re voting for but also how they want to vote.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2024-09-17-ranked-choice-disaster/
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