Ranked choice still encourages strategic voting. Let’s say you have Bernie running as third party and he’s your favorite candidate in a ranked voting election.
If you vote for him as #1 and enough people do this, he can potentially eliminate the Democrat candidate. Then when the Democrat votes are transferred to the remaining candidates, there might be enough people who don’t like Bernie and transfer their votes to a Republican to make for the Republican winning.
If you rate the Democrat #1 and Bernie #2 then the Democrat candidate might win outright. So voting for your favorite candidate might hurt your second choice
Ranked choice still encourages strategic voting. Let’s say you have Bernie running as third party and he’s your favorite candidate in a ranked voting election.
If you vote for him as #1 and enough people do this, he can potentially eliminate the Democrat candidate. Then when the Democrat votes are transferred to the remaining candidates, there might be enough people who don’t like Bernie and transfer their votes to a Republican to make for the Republican winning.
If you rate the Democrat #1 and Bernie #2 then the Democrat candidate might win outright. So voting for your favorite candidate might hurt your second choice