Approval Voting
In 2021, voters in Austin choose to use ranked choice voting in electing their city council. Why aren’t they using it? Because the state of Texas won’t let them. In many cities, you may have 3 to 10 candidates seeking to represent your precinct on city council. The likely result in nobody will win, so it will go to a runoff election that very few voters cast ballots in. Are very small number of voters decide who governs your city. The bigger problem is the warlike culture of political campaigns. When you can only choose one candidate on the ballot,…