Is Ranked Choice Voting the Right Way to Go?

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I don't have a favorite theory, honestly. There might be multiple models of the world that are compatible with the data that have very different levels of usefulness if they are true. I think that ranked choice voting has its issues as we've discussed before. Some kind of approval voting or range voting, score voting might be the right way to go. But asking everyone to carry through that more complicated voting procedure in a big country heterogeneous country like the United States might be very difficult to do.

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