From The National Conference on State Legislatures: ALTERNATIVE VOTING SYSTEMS, October 20, 2017 (who knew there was such an organization?):
Given that it is facing challenges in Maine Supreme Judicial Court and Maine Constitutional questions, I'm surprised they went ahead with it. You KNOW Democrats would be screaming Holy Hell if they were in a position to lose and the issue was up for consideration by the State Supreme Court.Some states use runoff elections for primaries; one state, Alabama, uses instant runoff elections, aka ranked choice voting, for its uniformed and overseas citizen absentee voters (UOCAVA) voters. Read Alabama's explanation of the state's process, and see NCSL’s webpage on primary runoffs.
Maine is the only state in the country to have established the use of ranked-choice voting for all congressional and state elections. The state adopted a citizens’ initiative in November 2016 to move the state toward a system of ranked-choice voting for elections for U.S. Senate, U.S. House, Governor, State Senator and State Representative starting in 2018. The measure was challenged in court, however, and in May 2017 the Maine Supreme Judicial Court found that parts of it violated the state constitution. The Maine Constitution calls for some candidates to be selected by plurality, rather than ranked according to preference. It remains to be seen whether the legislature will amend the constitution, or to repeal the ranked choice voting measure, or use it for some offices and not others.
Many large cities in the U.S. use ranked-choice voting including St. Paul, Minn., Portland, Maine and four cities in the Bay Area of California. Some cities, such as Cambridge, Mass., and Minneapolis, Minn., use ranked-choice voting in multimember districts. In these cases, the percentage of the vote needed to win a seat declines in relation to the number of seats to be elected.
Also known as "preferential voting," ranked choice voting is widely used in private associations, including more than 50 American colleges and for political party elections.
Sounds like a good idea to me.
One can vote for protest candidates but still exclude a ‘tard from a major Party.
Apparently the underling problem is that the voting peeps want an eventually fascist, socialist free stuff gov’t.
Quasi obviously the fault of Public Education and >50% of the kid parents.
To survive, the GOPee is going to have to go Conservative and spend lotsa campaign money educating the public otherwise.