Ranked choice voting (RCV) — also known as instant runoff voting (IRV) — makes our elections better by allowing voters to rank candidates in order of preference.
RCV is straightforward: Voters have the option to rank candidates in order of preference: first, second, third and so forth. If your first choice doesn’t have a chance to win, your ballot counts for your next choice.
RCV works in all types of elections and supports more representative outcomes. RCV means better choices, better campaigns, and better representation.
Originally Posted By u/Albany50501 At 2025-04-22 02:51:32 PM | Source
The single transferable vote is way better:
The single transferable vote (STV) or proportional-ranked choice voting (P-RCV) is a multi-winner electoral system in which each voter casts a single vote in the form of a ranked ballot. Voters have the option to rank candidates, and their vote may be transferred according to alternative preferences if their preferred candidate is eliminated or elected with surplus votes, so that their vote is used to elect someone they prefer over others in the running. STV aims to approach proportional representation based on votes cast in the district where it is used, so that each vote is worth about the same as another.
Instant-runoff voting (IRV) is the single-winner analogue of STV. It is also called single-winner ranked-choice voting and preferential voting
Seems like STV is an extension of ranked choice voting for the special case of multiple-winner elections.
My state had it on the 2024 ballot but the idiot voters bought into the propaganda and struck it down.
Which state? If it was CO, that bill sucked, and was poisoned by the inclusion of the “jungle primary into top 4 ranked choice” thing. I did a lot of research and talking to people. I really really believe that reforming our voting system to ranked choice, approval voting, or almost anything other than FPTP, but the CO bill was ranked choice in name only.
RCV is the way, or some derivative of that. It also encourages bipartisan cooperation rather than the endless gridlocks and stalemates we see commonly with party politics. I appreciate that more people are bringing this topic into the mainstream discussion.
For single seat elections: Ranked Choice is good, Approval Voting is better, but anything is better than First Past The Post. So I’ll happily accept RCV, especially as it opens up the door inches our way inti to better voting systems.
For multi-seat elections, proportional voting should be used.
Approval voting might be easier to implement since we wouldn’t have to change our ballots
What you really need to end is the winner takes all thing. That’s the full bs that keeps it locked to 2 parties.
