[EL] “How the Ugly 2016 Presidential Election Could Change the Way We Vote in Future Ones”

[Derek Muller]

Is there any particular reason Maine chose not to include presidential
elections in its ranked choice system?

And, would ranked choice voting alter what a "National Popular Vote" tally
might look like? That is, states could exert more influence in a national
popular vote system by instituting ranked choice voting to ensure that more
of its voters' preferences went toward the two major parties' candidates in
the national popular vote bucket--assuming the national popular vote counts
the final tally and not the first tally? Or might it simply mean that
voters would revert to the kind of gaming that ranked choice was designed
to prevent....

I'm just starting to think about these things, so any help would be
appreciated. Thanks!

Derek

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