Ranked choice voting largely avoids the pitfalls of plurality voting, giving voters the power to express their true candidate preferences rather than being strategic.
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The United States has a two-party political system because of single-winner plurality voting.
It may be new to Americans, but ranked-choice voting has a long history, and it is spreading rapidly across the U.S.
The system allows voters to pick their first, second- and third-choice candidates – and could encourage more civil campaigns.
In this year’s election, the system of majority voting didn’t allow voters to express their opinions adequately. If they had, the choice would have been between Kasich and Sanders.
What if you could go into a voting booth and rank your first, second and third choices? It could happen in Maine, if voters approve.
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