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The original US system was designed to limit democratic input as much as possible. The EC is a holdover from a time when we thought Senators shouldn't be directly elected to begin with and only white male land owners should be afforded a vote. It was warmed over liberalized feudalism on its best days.
I like ranked choice by-and-large. But I think the super-massive 700k person House seats and the two-Senator state seats are a bigger problem overall. Our voting districts are so enormous that only celebrities, millionaires, and deep party insiders can operate within the system. That strangled control of the bureaucracy affords phenomenal amounts of control to unelected party officials and entrenched partisan leadership.
Keep in mind that ranked choice voting gave us Eric Adams in NYC. It does nothing to guarantee quality candidates.
It actually functionally favors milquetoast, moderate candidates.
Your preferred candidate will never win, nobody's will. But a lot of people will probably agree on 2nd or 3rd choice candidates.
Ranked choice helped Mamdani get elected. It doesn't have to favor moderate candidates if like-minded candidates form coalitions and campaign together, like Mamdani and Lander did.
I definitely think that RCV is a step in the right direction, but I’m also interested to see where Fusion Voting goes. It also helped Mamdani get elected. Lee Drutman has written some interesting stuff about it: https://leedrutman.substack.com/p/how-fusion-voting-builds-the-new