Chase Oliver in Reason magazine

On Government Reform: Ranked-choice voting is better than runoffs

There's also the matter of the state's unusual rules requiring a runoff if neither candidate gets to 50% of the vote. That might free some voters to follow their conscience in the first round of voting--perhaps by backing Oliver--with the knowledge that they will have a chance to vote strategically in the runoff. In a state with a more typical first-past-the-post system, Oliver may have seen some of his prospective voters reluctantly pulled to Warnock's or Walker's camp in the campaign's final days--a frustrating phenomenon with which any third-party or independent candidate has to contend.

Coming out of an election where so many Georgians rejected the two-party system, Oliver says there might be momentum for additional changes. "Runoffs are better than plurality voting. Ranked-choice voting is better than runoffs," he says. "That's something that I'm going to be working on."

Source: Reason Magazine on 2022 Georgia Senate race Nov 18, 2022

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