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Ranked Choice Voting
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Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) is a voting system in which voters rank candidates by preference on their ballots. If a candidate wins a majority of first-preference votes, they are declared the winner. If no candidate wins a majority, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated, and votes for that candidate are redistributed to the remaining candidates, based on the next preference on each ballot. This process continues until one candidate has a majority. Learn more about how it works.
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Ranked choice doesn't mean proportional elector distribution. It means you vote for candidates in order of preference, and if your preferred candidate is last, your vote goes to your next preferred candidate.
Ranked choice does have it's own problems, but it's better than first past the post. Star voting improves the formula quite a bit.
It is far more likely that a blue state will switch to ranked choice first, and the fewer non-red states there are the more red states have influence on the electoral college, so it is important to push for this everywhere. That is all I am saying, and nothing more.
I think you are speaking to a disinformation person, who is deliberately introducing some nonsense-logic into the equation as a reason not to use RCV, in the hopes of fooling some people into not wanting to do it because they don't want to hurt the Democrats.
I thought they were just confused about proportional elector distribution vs ranked choice, too, up until just a second ago, and then it all made sense. They're still blandly doubling down on their misinterpretation and ignoring what you're saying and just repeating the original message, too.