Some states have changed election rules so that voters must “rank” every candidate for each office up for election, from first choice to last choice. Each “rank” (1,2, 3 etc.) is assigned a “point” score and the candidate with the most “points” wins the election whether or not that candidate won the most number one rank votes. This complex voting procedure is pure stupidity, would require much more time to select candidates when in the voting booth for each voter thus forcing people to stand in line to vote much longer, and needs to be nationally outlawed for every local, state, and national election.
When I and most people vote in a election, whether a primary election or final election, we have no “second” choices, no “third” choices, no “fourth” choices, etc.. We only have a first choice and don't want the other candidates to win. By forcing us to assign ranks to the people we don't want elected may result in a person we don't want elected winning the election despite the fact that the winning candidate was not the first choice of most voters. This could result in a voting strategy to rank the most competitive candidate, to the person each person really wants to win, last. Consequently, ranked choice voting could result in a candidate that nobody or relatively few people wanted to win actually winning the election. This is totally insane and should never be allowed in a democracy.
