Ranked-choice voting incentivizes leaders to govern responsibly and makes our elections more democratic.
It would help ensure that future speakers — regardless of party — are structurally accountable to the mainstream majority, instead of the extortionist few., and more states are considering adopting it. Indeed, all our elections would benefit from ranked-choice voting, not just the speaker’s race.
Most of the 20 members who shook down McCarthy and caused the chaos in January represent some of the most skewed and lopsided districts in the nation. Consider the district held by Rep. Byron Donalds, the MAGA insurgent put forth in opposition to McCarthy on multiple ballots in January. Donalds won his GOP primary in 2020 with just 22.6% of the vote, or a total of 23,492 votes, then cruised to victory in the gerrymandered general election. In a district of 834,988 people, a remarkable 2.8% of all residents effectively selected the winner.
Most of the 20 members who shook down McCarthy and caused the chaos in January represent some of the most skewed and lopsided districts in the nation. Almost all of them owe their seats to some combination of partisan redistricting and low-turnout primary elections that place extreme fringe candidates in uncompetitive general elections they can’t lose.
As McCarthy and the MAGA Republicans continue to march us toward an absurd Republican shutdown that even Senate Republicans want to avoid, it is time to recognize the price we all pay for structurally empowered political extremism. Fortunately, this dangerous scenario has an excellent, practical solution with ranked-choice voting.Jamie Raskin represents Maryland's 8th congressional district in the House of Representatives.
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