Years ago when I was a democrat the rank voting scam was explained to me. Wish I had paid attention. We need someone who can do the math - this works well under some circumstances for democrats. And not so well under other circumstances. Any mathematicians out there?
It’s basically like a Poker Hand. Poker is a ‘Ranked Choice’ game........................
“We need someone who can do the math”
There is no need to do any complicated math.
If no one wins a majority on the first ballot then the candidate with the lowest number of votes is eliminated and those votes are allocated to the candidate(s) who were ranked second on those ballots.
eg
An election with 3 candidates
Dem
Rino
MAGA
You vote
Dem 3
Rino 2
MAGA 1
Results
Dem 45%
Rino 30%
MAGA 25%
In first past the post the Dem wins, in ranked choice voting MAGA is eliminated and the MAGA Votes are transferred to the second choice.
If every MAGA voter puts the Rino 2nd final result is Dem 45% Rino 55%
You might not have wanted the Rino to win but would you have preferred the Dem to win because the right wing vote was split between Rino and MAGA
Suppose you have the following results in an election:
Smith 40%
Jones 35%
Johnson 25%
Since nobody got over the threshold of 50%, then they look at the ballots of everyone who voted for Johnson, and whoever they marked as their second choice gets those votes transferred to that candidate. So if 2/3 of Johnson voters listed Jones as their second choice and 1/3 of Johnson voters listed Smith as their first choice, then you would have (rounding)
Smith 48%
Jones 52%
And Jones would be the winner.
This is how Democrats and RINOs could band together to defeat MAGA candidates. Imagine this scenario where Smith is MAGA, Jones is a Democrat, and Johnson is a RINO.