I tried ranked voting, for a non-political end. The goal was to select a slogan. With ranked voting, the lousy slogan won consistently, but nobody liked it. When we tried a straight up-down vote, everyone liked the slogan and it went on to be a success.
Beware alternate voting schemes! You may not like the result, but the person pushing the scheme probably will.
If someone is promoting a statistical, ranked, stepped or other alternative method, the candidate or choice has little chance of winning a straight vote. Think Alinsky, Delphi, scam when you are approached with this.
Sure it gives “alternative” choices a better chance, but do we want fringe results?
True, which is why the Democratic and Republican parties will never let it happen. It would also save the costs of primary elections, since all candidates could just be put on the general election ballots.
While I can’t say I have a thorough understanding of how this tends to play out my first reaction is that it will save sigificant money spent on runoff elections.