actually ranked choice is MUCH harder to “engineer” a result than first-past-post.
This is because you always get the candidate that appeals to MOST of the voters.
Ranked choice is especially important in contests with MANY choices.....
The deep state likes first-past-post. Read up on it.
Public elections are another matter.....
Yeah... ranked choice works well in primaries. It’s much harder for the establishment to run conservative fakes to split the vote, or for Democrats to pile on behind a loser deliberately. I wouldn’t like it for a general election, though: it makes sure the least objected-to candidate always wins, and that’s usually the guy that the news media likes.