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    Why ranked-choice voting is bad: Consider a current scenario.

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    June 24, 2020
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    Shannon is the founder of Negative.vote, which is promoting statewide ballot initiatives to allow voters to register firm opposition to one candidate in each race.

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    Calling for ‘balanced ballots’ to break the partisan duopoly

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    "Introducing a disapprove option brings any ballot into 'balance,'" argues Mike Shannon.

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    Shannon is the founder of Negative.vote, which is promoting statewide ballot initiatives to allow voters to register firm opposition to one candidate in each race.

    Beneath the 2020 campaigns, a different battle is brewing between two wonky factions to replace America's plurality voting system — sometimes called first-past-the-post, which means the most votes wins.

    Advocates lobby in different cities, online and on social media for instant-runoff voting and approval voting.

    Maine, San Francisco, Minneapolis and New York have adopted instant-runoffs for municipal elections, while Fargo and St. Louis are considering approval voting.

    Instant runoff and approval voting advocates agree that plurality voting is deeply flawed. The problem is vote splitting. If there are more than two options, similar candidates dilute each other's support. Vote splitting multiplies with each additional candidate on the ballot.

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