There are many ways to run an election, but doing ranked choice and throwing out people by "fewest first place votes" is just stupid.
Let's say there is a four way election: a democratic socialist, a lefty democrat, a moderate democrat and a republican. If I am a democratic socialist, my actual preference is 1,2,3 and 4. But now I am stuck just like I would have been in first-past-the-post, and I have to consider giving my top pick to the moderate democrat and ranking them 3,2,1 and 4.
Except the results are now in for Alaska and ... they elected the wrong person.
Begich was, in fact, preferred over both Palin and Peltola - it is right there on the ballots.
But the dummies threw out Begich in the first round and gave the seat to the voters' second choice.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-republicans-might-lose-alaska-again-mary-peltola-nick-begich-sarah-palin-ranked-choice-voting-11663191650?st=xnsfpz1dvz0v0wt&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
There are many ways to run an election, but doing ranked choice and throwing out people by "fewest first place votes" is just stupid.
Let's say there is a four way election: a democratic socialist, a lefty democrat, a moderate democrat and a republican. If I am a democratic socialist, my actual preference is 1,2,3 and 4. But now I am stuck just like I would have been in first-past-the-post, and I have to consider giving my top pick to the moderate democrat and ranking them 3,2,1 and 4.