DNC Should Ban Ranked-Choice Voting

The Democratic National Committee meets on August 15, and on the agenda is a ban on ranked-choice voting (RCV) in the Democrats’ 2028 presidential primaries. This is causing an understandable uproar, since progressive and socialist Democrats are the ones pushing RCV around the country. The DNC would be right to take a stand against it, since RCV — like many other “election reforms” — makes the election process more difficult, less meaningful, and harder to trust.

In our regular “first-past-the-post” elections, each voter casts one vote for one candidate for each office. This is “one person, one vote.” It’s also simple addition: Add up everyone’s votes and the candidate with the most votes wins. Yet, even in this system, where ballots are easy to mark and count, people can and often do make mistakes and question results.

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Trent England

Trent England is executive director of Save Our States and co-author of The Case Against Ranked-Choice Voting.

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The Democratic National Committee meets on August 15, and on the agenda is a ban on ranked-choice voting (RCV) in the Democrats’ 2028 presidential primaries. This is causing an understandable uproar, since progressive and socialist Democrats are the ones pushing RCV around the country. The DNC would be right to take a stand against it, since RCV — like many other “election reforms” — makes the election process more difficult, less meaningful, and harder to trust.

In our regular “first-past-the-post” elections, each voter casts one vote for one candidate for each office. This is “one person, one vote.” It’s also simple addition: Add up everyone’s votes and the candidate with the most votes wins. Yet, even in this system, where ballots are easy to mark and count, people can and often do make mistakes and question results.