Centre Daily Times (State College, PA)
At least one good thing emerged from the fevered swamp of the 2016 election: voters in Maine approved ranked-choice voting for future elections, becoming the first state to do so. Pennsylvania and others ought to do the same.
Ranked-choice (preferential ed.) voting restores majority rule and — at the same time — gives people the freedom to vote for a third-party candidate without worrying that by doing so they will elect the contender they like least. There is also evidence that it reduces negative campaigning. And tell me you wouldn’t want that after our just-completed “race to the bottom” hit bedrock. . .
