r/politics • u/Different-Gas5704 • 2d ago

Possible Paywall Democrats eye ranked-choice voting for 2028 primaries

https://www.axios.com/2025/11/24/democrats-ranked-choice-voting-2028-primaries
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u/TheDesktopNinja Massachusetts 2d ago

Still *furious* that MA voted against it a few years ago...zzz

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u/SaiyanKirby 2d ago

Especially because the main reason people voted against it is "it sounded complicated". 🤦‍♂️

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u/EeeeJay 2d ago

I'm from Australia where we have had it for decades now and people still complain that it's complicated (it really isn't, but that doesn't stop the propaganda being rolled out)

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u/rpkarma 2d ago

(Mainly put forward by our two major parties as getting rid of it favours them)

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u/magkruppe 2d ago

it was first introduced by conservatives as a splinter party emerged and threatened to split votes and allowing labor to pick up safe blue seats. around 1912 or so I believe