Lannie Chapman, Salt Lake County chief deputy clerk, and Carson Adams, Salt Lake County election coordinator, load ballots onto an Agilis ballot packet sorting system at the Salt Lake County Government Center in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020.
Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
If ranked-choice voting belongs anywhere, it is in nonpartisan municipal elections. Salt Lake City will consider adopting this method at a meeting April 20, and the City Council probably ought to do it.
Use it for anything bigger than that, however — especially congressional races — and this otherwise intriguing way to vote will run straight into the buzzsaw of ultra-partisanship that defines so much of American politics these days.