Instant Runoff Voting for Texas: Distinctions from other RCV efforts

Texas - We're Like a Whole Other Country!

Instant Runoff Voting for Texas supports the use of ranked choice voting (RCV) in the elections where it is permitted, but our work in Texas is different from the RCV campaigns you may have heard about in the news. What we are doing in Texas is different both in the objective we are trying to achieve and the process by which we will achieve it.

Our objective in Texas is different than other places. In Texas, we are not advocating for “open primaries;” we already have them. And we are not proposing to use Instant Runoff Voting in partisan general elections, which do not require a majority to win.

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