13 states now ban ranked-choice voting as West Virginia, Wyoming join bandwagon --On elections: one opponent of RCV said, "It should be easy to vote and hard to cheat." | 21 March 2025 | West Virginia and Wyoming are the latest two states to ban ranked-choice voting (RCV), bringing the total number of states prohibiting the election system to 13. RCV is an election process whereby if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote, then a runoff system is triggered. When voters cast their ballots, they rank each candidate in order of first-to-last... The movement to ban RCV began in Florida and Tennessee in 2022, followed by Idaho, Montana and South Dakota in 2023, then Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma last year. Last year ballot measures to implement RCV were largely defeated.