Voters in Montana on Tuesday delivered a major blow to big moneyed interests by overwhelmingly passing a ballot initiative barring corporate cash from political campaigns in the state.
With 87% of votes counted as of Wednesday morning, Montana Constitutional Initiative 194 has ++received++ support from more than 65% of voters, with just 35% registering opposition.
You can’t just call those “glaring flaws” when it has a proven track record in the real world.
Let’s look at that track record.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-negative_responsiveness#Specific_examples
Three massive, and provable failures that flipped an election due to a spoiler candidate. The very thing RCV claims to prevent.
There’s a reason why Condorcet only used his version of RCV as an example of a system that could not reliably produce the pairwise winner.
Then about 50 years later an Englishman reinvents the system but for multiple winner elections. Then later another Englishman strips out the multi-winner part and we’re back to the same system described in Condorcet’s 1785 Essai sur l’application de l’analyse à la probabilité des décisions rendues à la pluralité des voix.
Translated that’s Essay on the Application of Analysis to the Probability of Majority Decisions.