(The Federalist) Ranked-choice voting (RCV) leads to voter disenfranchisement and chaotic elections, a newly released video shows.
Under RCV, voters rank candidates in order of preference. If no candidate receives more than 50 percent of first-choice votes in the first round of voting, the last-place finisher is eliminated, and his votes are reallocated to the voter’s second-choice candidate. This process continues until one candidate receives a majority of votes.
Published by the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA), the two-minute-long explainer video showcases how the use of RCV in elections leads to confused voters and discarded ballots. It highlights the issue of “ballot exhaustion,” a term used to describe what happens when voters select only one candidate on their ballot and then have their ballots tossed because their first choice didn’t win a majority in the first round. (Read More)
