Ranked-choice voting’s losing streak gets longer

It has been a dismal year for ranked-choice voting.RCV allows voters to rank candidates instead of choosing one. It then runs multiple rounds of counting, adjusts rankings, and discards “exhausted” ballots to determine a winner.Lawmakers, courts, cities, and voters are increasingly rejecting a system that makes elections harder to understand and easier to distrust.Two states have already banned it. One state’s pilot program was phased out. A statewide ballot proposal failed to qualify. Several c...