Ranked-choice voting (RCV)
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RCV trends: Four states ban RCV in 2025, bringing the number of states with bans to 15.

(Okay idk why it says 15 up here then later says 16, somebody on that site probably didn’t update the title text)

As of April 30, five states had banned RCV in 2025, which brought the total number of states that prohibit RCV to 16.

  • Gov. Mark Gordon (Republican) signed HB 165 on March 18.
  • West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey (Republican) signed SB 490 the March 19.
  • Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (Democrat) signed SB 6 into law on April 1.
  • North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong (Republican) signed HB 1297 on April 15.
  • Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Republican) signed HB 1706 which became law on April 17.

Six states banned RCV in 2024.

Why YSK: If you’re a US-American, its time to pay attention to State and Local politics instead of solely on the Federal. There is a trend in conservative jurisdictions to stop progress in making elecoral systems more fair. Use this opportunity as a rallying-cry to pass Ranked-Choice Voting in progressive jurisdictions, and hopefully everyone else takes notes. Sometimes, all you need is a few states adopting a law to become the catalyst for it to become the model for the entire country, for better or for worse. Don’t allow anti-RCV legislations to dominate, counter the propaganda with pro-RCV arguments. Time to turn the tide.

Edit: fixed formatting

Edit 2: Added in the map so you don’t have to click the link:

See the pattern? 🤔

  • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    13·
    3 days ago

    The link gives some arguments. It’s mostly stupid right wing claptrap.

    Opponents of ranked-choice voting argue that it benefits voters with more time and information, leads to decreased voter confidence in elections, and disconnects voting from important issues and debates. Opponents of ranked-choice voting also argue that RCV winners do not necessarily represent the will of the voters.

    It goes on to giving statements for those reasons from such respectable organizations as The Heritage Foundation, so do what you want with that.

    • chaogomu@lemmy.world
      22·
      3 days ago

      I’m an opponent of RCV for none of those reasons.

      No, I hate it because it’s deeply flawed and provides zero of the benefits that proponents claim it does.

      Rather than help third parties, it actually hurts them.

      The inventor of the system, created it as an example of a bad voting system. This was in 1790.

      There’s far more ballot spoilage when compared to any other system.

      It doesn’t eliminate the spoiler effect, just kicks it down the ballot a bit,

      It’s confusing to count, which has led to the wrong candidate being sworn in.

      It requires centralized counting, which is a single point of failure or attack.

      And finally there are better, simpler systems that actually do the things that RCV proponents claim RCV