Earlier this month a Superior Court trial wrapped up in a key case that may well decide whether Alaskans get a shot at repealing the state’s highly controversial ranked choice voting system.
It doesn’t even sound like you are required to rank all the candidates, so if you want to blindly vote for one person, this doesn’t seem to stop you.
Yeah, a good RCV system should allow apathetic voters to put an X beside their favourite candidate and call it a day, just as if it were a FPTP ballot. This is a non-issue.
Yeah, a good RCV system should allow apathetic voters to put an X beside their favourite candidate and call it a day, just as if it were a FPTP ballot. This is a non-issue.
And that is indeed how the system works in Alaska. You explicitly do not have to rank everyone, and can just pick a single candidate if you want.