Case Against Ranked-Choice Voting

Trust in American institutions is at historic lows. The answer from the Progressive Left? Make voting and counting ballots even more complicated.

Ranked-choice voting is their latest fad to remake elections. It makes voting harder: longer lines, more mistakes, and lower turnout. And it makes election administration so complicated that, in 2022, one California county certified the wrong winner in a school board race.

In this Broadside, two election experts explain what ranked-choice voting is, who is behind it, and why it threatens the integrity of our elections.

TRENT ENGLAND is the founder and executive director of Save Our States, which since 2009 has defended the Electoral College. He is the David & Ann Brown Distinguished Fellow at the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, a producer of the documentary Safeguard: An Electoral College Story, and a former legal policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation. He is also the author of Why We Must Defend the Electoral College, another Encounter Broadside.

JASON SNEAD is the Executive Director of the Honest Elections Project. He is a recognized leader, expert, and advocate for commonsense safeguards that secure elections and protect voter confidence. Jason frequently speaks and testifies on a range of election issues, and his writings have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Hill, Fox News, and more. Prior to heading the project, Jason was a Senior Policy Analyst in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Snead holds a master's degree in public policy from George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government.