Approval Voting
In 2021, voters in Austin chose to use ranked-choice voting to elect 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 the city council. The likely result is that nobody will win, so it will go to a runoff election in which very few voters will cast ballots. A 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…