The winners of elections receive more votes than their opponents, right? Not under a novel system that has been adopted in Maine and Alaska and in several cities, including New York, San Francisco and Minneapolis. The arrangement gained prominence when a very blue Democrat won a special election to the House of Representatives from the very red state of Alaska.
The system is called ranked-choice voting, and this segment of What’s Ahead describes what that is and why, despite what proponents proclaim, it’s not democratic. For instance, a person running in a multicandidate field could place third or fourth in the actual voting yet win the election.
It’s eyebrow raising to realize that under this system we would have had different outcomes in both the 1992 and 2000 presidential elections.
Ranked-choice voting is a bad choice.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2022/09/23/weird-undemocratic-voting-system-is-taking-hold-in-us/