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Ranked choice is 'the hot reform' in democracy.

Five states have banned #ranked #choice #voting in the last two months,
bringing the total number of Republican-leaning states now prohibiting #RCV to 10.

Missouri could soon join them.
If approved by voters, a GOP-backed measure set for the state ballot this fall would amend Missouri’s constitution to ban ranked choice voting.

Ranked choice voting allows voters to rank candidates and ensures the winner gains #majority support,
as compared to the vast majority of elections, where someone can win with a #plurality of votes.

“We believe in the one person, one vote system of elections that our country was founded upon,”
Missouri state Sen. Ben Brown, the ballot measure’s sponsor,
said in an interview.

In the 2022 election cycle, a group of Republicans and Democrats unsuccessfully sought to advance a ranked choice voting proposal in Missouri.

That would have instituted nonpartisan primariesfor statewide, congressional and state legislative elections.

The top four candidates would advance to the general election, where voters could then rank candidates from favorite to least favorite.

If someone gets a majority of initial votes, they win.

If no one gets a majority, the fourth place contender would be eliminated.

And voters who ranked that candidate first would have their vote go to their second choice.

This process would continue until a candidate gets a majority.

If Missourians approve the ranked choice voting ban, the state will join
Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Kentucky
in barring the voting system this year.

Alaska, where voters approved ranked choice voting in 2020, could see the practice repealed.

Meanwhile in other states, including
Nevada and Oregon,
voters will decide whether to adopt ranked choice voting later this year.

#Ranked #Choice #Voting #RankedChoiceVoting

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/05/nx-s1-4969563/ranked-choice-voting-bans