Ranked-Choice Voting is a Disaster
One person. One vote. That’s how American elections work.
Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV) threatens to undo this very principle—discounting votes, diminishing voter confidence, and threatening prompt election results.
The end result? A drop in voter confidence that lingers long after Election Day. Experiences with RCV in Maine and New York City should serve as cautionary tales, encouraging voters and policymakers to reject RCV in their communities.
Learn more about how RCV suppresses voter choice and why it should be stopped.
RCV Discounts VotesWhat is "ballot exhaustion?"
Under an RCV system, “ballot exhaustion” occurs when a voter overvotes, undervotes, or only ranks candidates that are no longer in contention, and the voter’s ballot does not count toward the end result.
RCV Diminishes Voter ConfidenceComplicating the process and confusing voters
How is this better than the traditional voting process? How are voters supposed to make informed decisions about all the candidates on the ballot, some of whom may not even be valid candidates anymore?
RCV Threatens Prompt Elections ResultsSlower results and increased irregularities
Multiple rounds of tabulation and choice ranking until one candidate receives more than 50% of the remaining votes means slower results, increased irregularities, and undermining our "one person, one vote" system.
Want to learn more?
Study Our Resources on Ranked-Choice Voting
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RESEARCH PAPER:
Ranked-Choice Voting: A Disaster in Disguise
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ONE-PAGER:
The Truth About Ranked-Choice Voting
How Winners are Losing in American Elections
OP-ED
Who exactly are the winners of this new and confusing electoral system called ranked-choice voting (RCV)? It’s not the thousands of voters that show up to the polls in RCV elections only to have their votes thrown out. The winners of RCV are partisans and special interests who use the system’s design to manipulate election outcomes and undermine states’ efforts to safeguard election integrity.
Strengthening the trust that the American people have in the election process should not be a partisan issue. Banning ranked-choice voting is a measure that everyone ought to support to protect election integrity.
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Ranked-Choice Voting: A Disaster in Disguise
Strengthening the trust that the American people have in the election process should not be a partisan issue. Banning ranked-choice voting is a measure that everyone ought to support to protect election integrity.
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How Winners are Losing in American Elections
The winners of RCV are partisans and special interests who use the system’s design to manipulate election outcomes and undermine states’ efforts to safeguard election integrity.
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Alaska’s Exhausting Special Election — Nearly 15,000 Ballots Thrown Out
Most perspectives have either misunderstood or simply ignored the real culprit of the upset in Alaska: ranked-choice voting (RCV).
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FGA Applauds Tennessee Republicans for Protecting Voters by Prohibiting Runoff and Ranked-Choice Voting
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed legislation prohibiting county election commissions from utilizing ranked-choice voting in local and state elections.
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