“Q: Why do states that don’t use RCV have RCV-enabled electronic voting machines...?”
Personally I’m not a fan of ranked choice voting, if that is what you are referring to. But it does have some merits.
I have to disagree with you entirely. RCV is STRICTLY a Leftist construct, designed to promote people who have zero mandate for their policies (such as Leftists) at the expense of other candidates.
Furthermore, if you ask someone to describe how their vote functions in an election, it is pretty simple: “You cast your vote, it is counted, and in the non-electoral part of an election, the one with the most votes wins.”
If you randomly asked a thousand people on the street to describe Ranked Choice Voting, I would pay money if you can get ONE person to describe it accurately.
Yes. Not a fan of RCV. I saw how that worked in real time in Maine when I was up there during the 2018 election. A travesty.