'Ranked-choice voting is like eating an apple with half a worm in it. The more you learn, the worse it really is,' says Andrew Welhouse, a senior writer for the Foundation for Government Accountability in a Letter to the Editor.
But overall, ranked-choice voting is like eating an apple with half a worm in it. The more you learn, the worse it really is.
When it comes to participation, access, fairness, and the importance of our elections, it’s clear that ranked-choice voting is nothing more than a second-best option. Ranked-choice voting turns winners into losers, it silences the voice of people who don’t have time to research every candidate, and it reduces confidence in our elections at a time when we need more of it.
First, one of the very best parts of American democracy is that every single vote is equal — one person, one vote. No matter who you are, where you live, or how much money you have, your vote counts the exact same as mine. That’s a feature, not a bug, of our system. Under ranked-choice voting, your vote counts — unless it doesn’t. Votes can be “exhausted,” or thrown out and not counted, when they are cast for one of the eliminated candidates without a backup. In Salt Lake and Utah counties, ranked-choice voting resulted in about one out of every 11 votes cast — 8.9 percent — being thrown out . In the 2021 Sandy City mayoral race, 18.6 percent of votes were thrown out — nearly one in every five.
Second, recent high-profile elections have shown the chaos that can come from ranked-choice voting. In 2021, Alaska held a congressional special election for a seat in Congress that had previously been held by a Republican
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