Ranked choice voting favors moderate candidates over divisive ones. Ohio lawmakers want to ban it

By: Marilou Johanek

Outlets: Ohio Capital Journal

Published: March 4, 2026

Words: 978

Last Updated: 1 week ago

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If every state representative or state senator in Ohio had to receive more than 50% of all votes cast in an election to win, would the General Assembly have gutted a voter-approved marijuana law, outlawed diversity efforts in higher education, waged unrelenting war against LGBTQ+ Ohioans, or defiled Ohio’s state parks with pollution-generating oil and gas drillers?

I could go on. But think about it.

If Ohio’s gerrymandered lawmakers could no longer skate …

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