IMD Team Shares RCV Research in The Conversation

IMD team members Ismar Volić, Andy Schultz, and David McCune recently authored an op-ed for The Conversation: “Ranked choice voting outperforms the winner-take-all system used to elect nearly every US politician.” Drawing on IMD’s recent study of ranked choice voting across 2,000 ranked choice elections from the U.S., Australia and Scotland and 60 million simulated elections, they share evidence that “ranked choice voting performed much better across all the measures we tested, including spoiler, vote-splitting, strength of candidates and strategic voting.” By electing candidates with broader support and greater democratic legitimacy than plurality methods, ranked choice voting offers a clear step towards mending democratic ailments.