I don’t know why people think RCV would be considered difficult, we love ranking shit.
It’s about preservation of power.
In any solid red or blue location, the party in control will promote any narrative to discredit RCV because it could only weaken their influence in the area.
For example, most people who are progressives vote blue only because the alternative is far worse. But if a heavily blue state were to pass RCV, it might mean gasp that Democrats lose seats to a more progressive party.
We should explain it to voters as “create a buzzfeed listicle of your favourite politicians”
Ballot design.
Some RCV ballot designs are better than others. For example:
Also, as an experience designer who has had the pleasure of sitting in many many user tests, never under estimate how dumb people are. Some people are going to be confused by the new thing because it’s new. Good news is that this goes away after an election or two and most of the public gets used to it.
WHY ARE WE YELLING?!
And yet here in Alaska there’s a concerted effort to eliminate Ranked Choice Voting, I can only assume by people who are upset at the establishment losing some of it’s grip.
RCV: It’s voting, but you get to be more judgemental.
There. Marketing for a sizeable portion of the electorate to get on board with it.
Sorry about the caps. It’s the title of the article.
