Ranked Choice Voting is really complicated

Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) allows you to vote for multiple candidates on a ballot, putting your favorite first even if you don't think they'll get elected. Without RCV, strategic voting is required - for example, voting for a Democrat instead of Socialist because you really don't want the Republican to get elected. There are electoral districts that have implemented RCV. In my state, some counties have RCV, even if statewide is choose-one. Any time we implement RCV, there must be a process that chooses which votes get counted, and which votes get thrown out. Some situations are extremely simple, and have really intuitive answers as to what is "right". Other situations are really tough. For some of the problems, there are purely mathematical solutions, but then choosing which mathematical solutions to apply is an ethical question - an ethical nightmare, even. One of the questions to answer is: Do we want the most-favored option to win, or the least-objectionable? Consider. John &…