Ranked choice voting (RCV) — also known as instant runoff voting (IRV) — makes our elections better by allowing voters to rank candidates in order of preference.
RCV is straightforward: Voters have the option to rank candidates in order of preference: first, second, third and so forth. If your first choice doesn’t have a chance to win, your ballot counts for your next choice.
RCV works in all types of elections and supports more representative outcomes. RCV means better choices, better campaigns, and better representation.
Originally Posted By u/Albany50501 At 2025-04-22 02:51:32 PM | Source
Unsure what that means.
This example shows a violation of the Condorcet winner criterion, and the articles I linked to identify methods that lack this issue, so not all methods have that issue. Some articles on those methods include a nice comparison table of methods over a range of criteria: they vary.
While ranked voting methods in general have some unavoidable issues, this isn’t one of them.
Basically exactly what I was alluding to, they all have some issue so it’s not so simple, but not as severe as fptp.