"Why must Torontonians vote for the lesser evil?" asks Frank de Jong, Ward 18, Toronto Council candidate. "Ranked choice voting is long overdue in Ontario."
Many Toronto voters feel forced to vote for a mayor or councillor they don’t want to avoid electing someone even less desirable. But voters in San Francisco, Memphis and London, England rank their candidates 1, 2, 3, and elect the most popular person every time.
Candidate ranking eliminates strategic voting and wasted votes. Under Instant-Runoff Voting a winner must achieve more than 50% of the vote. IRV is used by Canadian federal and provincial political parties at leadership conventions.
Instead of an ‘X’ voters simply place '1' beside their first choice, and '2' and '3' beside their next choices, etc. When voting is complete the candidate with the least first place votes is dropped and their second place votes are reallocated until one candidate surpasses 50% of the vote.
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In terms of information you are describing a scenario in which voters contribute more data. Currently people choose among 3 options, but with this system they choose among 3x2x1 = 6 options. A seemingly small difference with larger psychological consequences, due to the impossibility of throwing away one's vote.
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