Letter: Another voting alternative exists -- Approval Voting -- and we should try it first

As the Utah legislative session gets underway, one of the largest discussions centers around alternative voting. There is a push to pass Ranked Choice Voting as the sole voting method in Utah after some cities and parties have used RCV under the current pilot program. However, we should not be so quick to commit to this overhaul. Ranked Choice Voting happens to also be the only alternative method we’ve tried and, because of this, it would be hard to attribute any amount of success to RCV a