San Francisco Mayoral Race Rasies Questions About Ranked-Choice Voting

CALIFORNIA
Critics Aim to End Ranked-Choice Voting After SF Mayoral Race (Posted by Lance Williams, KQED) “Regardless of its merits, ranked-choice voting will probably be repealed,” he said in an interview. Ordinary voters struggle with the system because “it’s complicated,” he said. And politicians and political professionals quickly grew to dislike it because its results were so unpredictable.

Cyndi Lesher: Minnesota Needs Ranked Choice Voting

RANKED VOTING
If we want to swap polarization for moderation, we should adopt Ranked Choice Voting (By Cyndi Lesher, MinnPost.com) Under our "plurality-take-all" system, candidates win by mobilizing their party base and scaring undecided and independent voters away from their opponents. Divide-and-conquer campaigns work in a system that locks voters into a "lesser-of-two-evils" choice.