Opinion | Vote For Me! For Second Place, at Least? – The New York Times

I am so happy about this. I think switching to instant-runoff voting would be one of the best steps we could take to improve politics in this country. It would mean that people could finally vote for their favorite candidate without worrying about throwing your vote away.

What if we’ve been electing our politicians the wrong way this whole time?

Voters in Maine will tackle that question on Tuesday, when the state holds its primaries using a radical yet sensible electoral reform that could fundamentally change how campaigns are run and who ends up winning. It will be the first time the method — known as ranked-choice, or instant-runoff, voting — is used in a statewide election.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/09/opinion/ranked-choice-voting-maine-san-francisco.html