What is ranked choice voting?
This article is a great overview.
What’s happening in my state?
The same article lists some things, and Wikipedia has more details.
Here’s what on the ballot this year:
- Alaska is voting to repeal RCV
- Arizona is voting on a proposition for non-partisan primaries and RCV
- Colorado is voting on using RCV
- District of Columbia is voting on using RCV
- Idaho is voting on using RCV
- Missouri is voting on banning RCV altogether
- Montana is voting on a proposition for non-partisan primaries
- Nevada is voting on using RCV for federal and state elections
- Oregon is voting on using RCV for federal and state elections
- South Dakota is voting on non-partisan top 2 primaries
- Texas has a group working on ranked choice voting
Register to vote, check your registration, make sure you’re in a position to fix voting. It’s important. It’s not as far away as you think.
True, the complexity argument is usually given in bad faith. But I’ve seen even people who advocate RCV get confused about how the rounds work and how this affects the voting strategy.