Originally Posted by
PackMan97
I'm a huge fan of both ranked choice voting (also known as instant runoff voting).
It's not perfect. There are quite often times where if you knew your candidate was out, and this candidate was close to winning, you might vote for your third choice instead of your second choice that round. In fact changing your vote from '2nd best' to 'lesser of two evils". While I think elections aren't typically that close, it is a legit beef with the voting method.
...and as mentioned, you can do all sorts of political machinations if you do it round by round. Let the politicians have their fun, I guess.
It's fun to think about that the last place candidate in a ranked choice election is literally "Anybody But That Guy".
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."