Voters across the country weighed in on ranked choice voting ballot initiatives Tuesday, with a vast majority rejecting the system amid an intensifying debate over its effects on elections. RCV, which allows voters to rank candidates by preference rather than selecting only one,

Missouri voters on Tuesday approved a ballot measure aimed at banning ranked-choice voting in the state, Decision Desk HQ projects. The proposed amendment to the state constitution will bar the implementation of ranked-choice elections,

Voters have approved Amendment 7, which bans ranked choice voting. It’s an election system that lets voters rank candidates by preference, instead of choosing one winner. Candidates must receive the majority of the votes to win and to avoid a runoff election.

Washington, D.C., is one of five states and territories with ranked choice voting on the ballot for the 2024 election.

A measure to implement top-four, all-candidate primaries and ranked-choice voting in the general election has failed in Colorado, Decision Desk HQ projects. Coloradans voted down the proposed change,

Alaska and Maine already use ranked-choice voting, which supporters say could lead to more moderate politics. But it has been rejected in Colorado, Idaho, Nevada and Oregon.

Advocates hoped for big victories to build momentum for a system they say gives voters better choices at the ballot box.

Initiatives related to ranked choice voting) in political primaries and general elections were on the ballots in eight statesandelectoralsystemballotmeasures,2024) and the District of Columbia. On the ballots were also an initiative that would repeal ranked choice voting (RCV) and restore plurality elections in Alaska,

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