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We need a voting method where two out of five candidates can be preferred by the vast majority of voters and have subtle differences but one of them will still win instead of throwing the election to their most radical opponent. IRV can't do that because it counts by 1st-ranked votes only. So the vast majority counts only as several minorities until they get counted together, at which point their strongest candidate was probably already eliminated by a counting method which devalues consensus.
Doug@enobacon But #RankedChoiceVoting even #IRV is always better than plurality-winner. If pointing out that #RCV is imperfect means we have to “ban RCV,” we’re going to be stuck with something worse.
@dougdougdoug incorrect. "Ranked Choice" IRV suckers more candidates into running and eliminates a universally 2nd-choice candidate in the first round even if they're the only one a majority agrees on. It's only worthwhile if you're counting ballots by hand 100 years ago or have a lot of money to spend to confuse voters and confound grassroots efforts of people supporting better alternatives, and FairVote has known all this for more than a decade now but keeps lying about what it will achieve.