I live in a jurisdiction that uses RCV. It is set up to make sure that only those that the local powers that be get the candidates they want. It also works for them on the other initiatives on the ballot. The whole situation stinks and it won't change. I know, because we tried.

Rothbardian_fanatic

econ

The ECP Shows the Impossibility of Socialism

That's an interesting case, because there are very good arguments for why ranked choice voting ***can*** be better (although many common arguments are undermined by the Impossibility Theorem). 

I'm skeptical of the implementation, because there are inherently arbitrary parameters that have to be selected in the scoring of the votes and I can't imagine the ruling class isn't selecting the parameters that best suit them.