@coldfish@sfba.social I'm a fan of ranked choice elections - in theory. I ran in, and won, such an election. (It went through seven rounds before I became the winner.) But even among the technically smart voters who participated in that election there was some concern about potential weakness of ranked choice systems and whether they could be gamed. And there is the issue that people have become used to quick results - but ranked choice systems tend to have flip-flops as the count proceeds, thus upsetting many "I want it now" voters or energize the kind of conspiracy theories that come out of many maga-folk. Also, that counting can continue that instability until the last ballot is counted - which can be a long time in this era of provisional and foreign mail-in (e.g. military personnel) ballots. So my concern is that ranked choice needs to be introduced slowly, and mostly on minor and local elections, until people get used to it.