The Democratic Party Needs to Adopt Ranked-Choice Voting in its Primary

Kai McKinnon
7 min readMar 17, 2019

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The Democratic Party is too powerful. In the last century it has always selected one of the two candidates voters can choose for president. However, voters don’t directly elect the Democratic nominee. They vote for one of 3,768 delegates who, at the Democratic National Convention, cast a vote alongside another 764 superdelegates — Democratic Party insiders such as…

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Kai McKinnon

Software Engineer and aspiring fantasy writer living in Brooklyn