Ranked-choice voting (RCV)
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RCV trends: Four states ban RCV in 2025, bringing the number of states with bans to 15.

(Okay idk why it says 15 up here then later says 16, somebody on that site probably didn’t update the title text)

As of April 30, five states had banned RCV in 2025, which brought the total number of states that prohibit RCV to 16.

  • Gov. Mark Gordon (Republican) signed HB 165 on March 18.
  • West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey (Republican) signed SB 490 the March 19.
  • Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (Democrat) signed SB 6 into law on April 1.
  • North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong (Republican) signed HB 1297 on April 15.
  • Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Republican) signed HB 1706 which became law on April 17.

Six states banned RCV in 2024.

Why YSK: If you’re a US-American, its time to pay attention to State and Local politics instead of solely on the Federal. There is a trend in conservative jurisdictions to stop progress in making elecoral systems more fair. Use this opportunity as a rallying-cry to pass Ranked-Choice Voting in progressive jurisdictions, and hopefully everyone else takes notes. Sometimes, all you need is a few states adopting a law to become the catalyst for it to become the model for the entire country, for better or for worse. Don’t allow anti-RCV legislations to dominate, counter the propaganda with pro-RCV arguments. Time to turn the tide.

Edit: fixed formatting

Edit 2: Added in the map so you don’t have to click the link:

See the pattern? 🤔

  • Randelung@lemmy.world
    14·
    16 hours ago

    Yes, there’s tons of things that make the process unfair, but does that make the system not be a democracy? It’s a flawed one, one that basically only allows white dudes to vote, but the system is still a democracy.

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago
      • Blocked the right to vote for one sex
      • Blocked the right to vote for non-whites
      • Polls taxes blocked the right to vote for non-whites and the poor
      • Excluded Natives from voting
      • The first vote for the president had less than 1% of Americans vote, Washington running unopposed for his terms
      • Voter ID laws are a tax on the poor
      • Gerrymandering where the politicians choose the voters.
      • Electoral college
      • No time off for voting, meaning the working poor aren’t likely to vote
      • Voting by mail blocked by most states, the ones that the EC weighs unequally
      • Parties have sued to keep people and other parties off ballots
      • Parties have argued before court to not legally require fair primaries, as there’s no legal basis for it

      Yeah, democracy.

    • stelelor@lemmy.ca
      6·
      14 hours ago

      What if only people who make over $500k annually can vote? Is that still a democracy?

      • Randelung@lemmy.world
        21·
        13 hours ago

        I get you’re referring to a plutocracy. The question is if the US is so far gone that it’s out of flawed democracy territory - the lines are definitely blurred and I’d argue it depends on the state.