Maryland should adopt ranked-choice voting

Voters in Idaho, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon and Washington, D.C., will be asked in November referendums if they support ranked-choice voting. Some states, such as Maine, New York, Utah and Alaska, have already instituted some form of ranked-choice voting, and it is time for Maryland to follow suit statewide (“Expanding ranked choice voting statewide in Oregon will be on November ballot,” Aug. 8). When politicians in both parties claim that ranked-choice voting rigs elections to benefit their opponents, they are alleging without evidence that their own party candidates cannot compete in...