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I'm in Saint Paul, Minnesota. We have a mayoral race with ranked choice voting! Hoping for a slightly more progressive candidate to win, but Carter hasn't been awful.
I didn't know they had ranked choice voting anywhere in America
Alaska has apparently been doing RC for yeeears (but not for regional/federal elections).
Alaska. If Sarah Palin's state can do it, we're kinda out of excuses.
Oregon.
The US is really 50 democracies in a trench coat.
One might argue this is very Swiss (decentralized) of them. But then, money clouds everything.
A lot of the problems are because the US is a horrible mix of centralized and decentralized systems with no real way balance anymore. Reminder at the time of the USs creation the oldest Republic was fucking Venice meaning that they were treading waters not treaded since antiquity, so it has a lot of beta testing issues that have held on well into the full version. Upside is that if shit goes badly enough with the feds the states can theoretically correct for it like the Holy Roman Empire.
I like your optimism. But what exactly did the HRE fix?
It's slowly catching on.
Hope it goes better for you guys than our ranked choice election did. A lot of people saw the ranked grid and just noped out!
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/12/17/why-portlands-district-1-voter-participation-lagged-other-districts-in-first-election-using-ranked-choice-voting/