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?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

People find it confusing? I don't know.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

This is some of it for sure.