Voting is broken! Let's fix it.
Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) is a voting system in which voters rank candidates by preference on their ballots. If a candidate wins a majority of first-preference votes, they are declared the winner. If no candidate wins a majority, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated, and votes for that candidate are redistributed to the remaining candidates, based on the next preference on each ballot. This process continues until one candidate has a majority. Learn more about how it works.
It took quite some time for the complicated mathematical reductions of “Ranked Choice” voting to arrive at the final three winners
Why? It's instant runoff, right? And I'd hardly call eliminating the lowest, redistributing votes, retallying, and repeat complicated mathematical operations.
Yeah, it would have been nice if the article made some attempt to explain why.
The headline reads like a hit piece on RCV
It seems fair, they should have known the answer by now. Whether or not RCV was at all involved in the delays in gathering everything up in this case, it definitely does make things more complex to tabulate, since you have to aggregate all of the “raw data” together into one calculation. You can’t just have each precinct report its total and then centrally add up all the totals.
Since starting this community to try to promote RCV, I have become more or less convinced that STAR voting is probably a better way. Although, any type of reform is a good step forward, I think.