Ranked Choice Voting (RCV)
As mentioned earlier, India’s first-past-the-post (FPTP) system leads to bad governance. To recap Karthik Muralidharan in Accelerating India’s Development , FPTP incentivizes governments to focus on the sub-groups who are “enough” to win elections instead of trying to deliver for everyone. One alternative to that is called ranked-choice-voting (RCV). The idea is that voters rank candidates in the decreasing order of their preference (They can rank as many as they want, not necessarily all the candidates). “If a candidate wins over 50% of first-choice votes, they win. If not, the lowest-ranked candidate is dropped and the votes of those who ranked them first are transferred to their second-choice candidates. This process continues until a candidate receives over 50% of the votes.” An example helps. Say, there are 3 candidates, A, B and C who gets 36, 34 and 30 votes. C got the least, so he is dropped. The second-preference of the 30 votes for C are checked. In this case, s...