The latest trial balloon for ranked choice voting in presidential primaries

Recent lobbying efforts to bring RCV to the Democratic presidential nomination process face obstacles in and outside of the national party

At FHQ: “Scoop: Dems eye ranked-choice voting for primaries”

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Well, I was going to write about the Republican presidential nomination rules for 2028 this week, but apparently the Democrats are “eyeing” ranked choice voting (RCV) in the presidential primaries.

…or at least that is what Holly Otterbein at Axios is reporting.

So I will take the bait since the lobbying that Celinda Lake, Jamie Raskin and FairVote have done has had the desired effect of getting attention. Only, much of that attention is tackling RCV with very little context. But then, that is often what the bulletpointed highlights at Axios tend to invite.

Here is some of that context…