“GOP fears Kari Lake bid could cost them Arizona Senate race”

The Hill. The potential three-way race between incumbent Sinema as an independent, Gallego as the Democrat, and Lake as the Republican, is reason to consider alternative forms of Ranked Choice Voting, including the Total Vote Runoff procedure. The existing plurality-winner system is clearly not the best way to choose among these three: a majority of voters may be strongly opposed to the plurality winner, but split their opposition between the two alternatives. Thus, if Arizona were to replace its plurality-winner system with some version of RCV, which version would be optimal to adopt considering the various tradeoffs involved (relative simplicity or complexity, relative resistibility or susceptibility to strategic voting, relative capacity to ameliorate or exacerbate polarization and extremism, relative effectiveness or ineffectiveness in electing candidates most representative of the state’s electorate as a whole, etc., etc.)?

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