Ranked-Choice Elections: How Are They Won? | IN 60 SECONDS

Does Ranked Choice Voting Solve the Problem of Political Polarization? AEI’s Scott Ganz explains.

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[bitogre]

What? The content did not match the description. It introduces "Condorcet's Method" without providing enough detail on how that works in practice and is off topic. I am left with more questions than were answered by this video.

[donawyo]

I hate that so many people are uninformed and don’t vote. If they are uninformed, I am glad they don’t vote but why don’t they care? That’s what aggravates me.

We need to return to paper ballots and hand counting.

They do a lot of rank choice voting in blue states and they can never go back to red so that always seemed like a reason to not do it to me.

[LaOwlett]

We can't even manage simple voting. We should be considering this once we can process and count votes properly again.

[declup]

Normal people are normal so they have normal opinions and tend to vote for normal candidates and parties. Crazy people -- well, they aren't so normal, so they might be inclined to vote for crazy candidates and parties.

Say, though, there are only two parties to vote for. You would hope that the two parties would be normal, and crazy people would just have to suck it up and vote for them, having no other alternative.

But... if those two parties start to go crazy? Who do the normal people vote for then? They have no choice but to vote for crazy parties, which then become more powerful, since now they have the support of normies and crazies both, and become potentially even crazier.

If there are only two parties, the normalness of the system hangs by a societally chaotic thread. There's a reason why economic markets are supposed to have, not just two, but multiple options. Redundancy is the most natural and effective of safeguards.