meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Cato Daily Podcast

Dispelling the Fear and Loathing over Ranked-Choice Voting

Cato Daily Podcast

Caleb Brown

Politics, News Commentary, 424708, Libertarian, Markets, Cato, News, Immigration, Peace, Policy, Government, Defense

4.6949 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

As many voters will consider changes to voting processes, what does recent experience tell us about ranked-choice voting? Walter Olson explains.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

This is the Katordilly podcast for Thursday, October 17th,

0:07.8

2004.

0:08.8

I'm Caleb Brown.

0:09.8

Rank choice voting is on many Americans ballots this year. The process allows voters

0:13.9

to communicate more detail about their preferences. Walter Olson says

0:18.1

despite a great deal of fear about the process from many partisans, it's nothing

0:22.4

to worry about. We spoke last week.

0:27.0

People have very strong feelings about rank choice voting and I would like to believe some of those strong feelings are rooted in actual problems with

0:40.3

rank choice voting and not just a naked ploy for partisans to maximize their vote share

0:50.1

by avoiding Rank choice voting entirely.

0:54.0

And there are a lot of, it has picked up steam in some places

1:00.0

to the extent that states or localities have deployed rank choice voting in some way,

1:08.0

what can we say with confidence about how those experiments have gone so far.

1:13.0

Widespread experiments, and we're talking now about, I think, 60 or 80 different, mostly

1:19.4

citizen counties, are still recent enough that we should be cautious about trying to generalize about where they are

1:27.0

headed because people take a while to get used to the system. The different players such as candidates

1:31.7

deciding whether to run also take a while to adjust.

1:36.7

But I'd say point number one that I would make is that there is no real evidence that it changes the partisan outline of which

1:46.3

party does better. It has tended to be adopted in more liberal cities and

1:51.8

Republicans didn't have a chance in those cities for the most part

1:55.8

and Rankshvoting doesn't change that if anything it could give the Republicans a couple of

2:01.2

new cards to play by align with moderate Democrats, but by

...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -125 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Caleb Brown, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Caleb Brown and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.