You’d still not get one vote. It’s just like a runoff election, only done at the same time as the general. Your second choice candidate is a separate vote. If the ballot said “vote for 1 candidate for dog catcher” on line one, then said “if no candidate for dog catcher wins a majority and your candidate is eliminated from contention, who would you vote for” on line 2, that would clearly be a different vote for a different ballot question. That’s effectively what ranked choice is doing.
In any case, you said this method is unconstitutional. Please quote the clause from any article or amendment that states that such a voting method is unconstitutional. I don’t think you can find one.
I believe that ONE VOTE is Constitutional. You have your ONE VOTE. If there are more people running, you should not have the option of another vote. You already had your ONE VOTE. Period. No do overs. Just another way that the Left, (Just like ballot harvesting and mail-in. LA County was ordered to purge 1.5 MILLION fraudulent or inactive registrations over a year and a half ago. They haven’t done it. That is, with the state being all mail-in,1.5 MILLION FRAUDULENT ballots just in LA County, that can be filled out and mailed in by ANYBODY), has devised to destroy the integrity of our elections.