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Thankfully, Virginia rejects measures that would unleash chaos upon voters
Staff • Apr 24, 2024

Virginia voters can have confidence in November that the election process will be simple and their votes will count. That’s because of the defeat of two radical election proposals pushed by well-financed lobbying groups. Each would have made voting less transparent and more confusing. Voters were spared the latest mess only by gubernatorial veto on April 8. …

RCV makes voting take a lot longer, with many more decisions to make and bubbles to mark. Just imagine a ballot with fifteen RCV races, each with five candidates. That’s 75 candidates to rank. Lines and wait times at the polls would be unimaginable.

Read the whole piece at the Richmond Times-Dispatch.