https://www.npr.org/2024/11/08/nx-s1-5183210/nonpartisan-primary-ranked-choice-voting-results
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/results/2024/11/05/ranked-choice-voting-ballot-measures/
Alaska: had ranked-choice voting in place for certain statewide elections, but it looks like they’ve voted to get rid of it and go back to using the first-past-the-post system
Arizona: had a ballot question that would have created non-partisan open primaries, but voted it down
Colorado: had a ballot question that would have created top-four non-partisan open primaries AND ranked-choice voting in general elections, but voted it down
Idaho: same thing as Colorado, voted it down
Missouri: had a ballot question that would do two things: prohibit ranked-choice voting, and require voters to be US citizens. It passed.
Montana: had a ballot question that would have created top-four non-partisan open primaries, as well as a separate ballot question that would have “required a majority vote to win election”. Both were voted down.
Nevada: same thing as Colorado and Idaho, voted it down
Oregon: had a ballot question that would have created ranked-choice voting, but voted it down
South Dakota: had a ballot question that would have created a “top-two” primary election system, voted it down.
The only places where ranked-choice voting was adopted this year were at the city level, in Washington DC and a few mid-sized cities in the Midwest.
This is depressing. Ranked-choice voting is something that I’ve supported for, like, almost my entire adult life (EDIT: although I’ve also learned about score voting recently and now I think that would be better), but it doesn’t look like other Americans want it very much. Why did this happen? Am I out of touch?
Portland, OR has RCV for city positions and there was a lot of hand-wringing about how a significant portion of the electorate didn’t fill out the ranked choice part of the ballot because they found it too confusing.
My response was that if people are going to self-select as too stupid to handle the simple task of ranked choice voting, then I do not have a problem with them not voting.
It would be made extremely confusing on purpose to exclude people too poor to attend private schools, where using it would be taught.
I am sure this is true but it reminded me about that Dem a few years back that said ranked choice voting was discriminatory because POC wouldn’t understand it