On January 11, the Center for Election Confidence released a study of the effects of ranked choice voting (RCV). (The center, previously known as the Lawyers Democracy Fund, opposes RCV.)
The study—conducted by Nolan McCarty, a public affairs professor at Princeton University—found that RCV "disproportionately decreases the representation and electoral influence of minority voters." But a study out today from FairVote, a nonpartisan group that advocates for the adoption of RCV, reached a very different conclusion.
