Montana Democrats force Green Party from the ballot

Democracy in action

Montana’s one of the swing vote senatorial races, and the Democrats feared that votes for the Green’s candidate would allow the Republican to squeeze in.

The Massholes who’ve invaded Maine the past decade saw this problem and solved it some years ago with ranked-choice voting: go ahead and vote for your radical looney candidate, but select our approved candidate as your second choice. When your lunatic fails to achieve 51% of the vote, we’ll add your second-rank vote to our guy’s and we’ll see you in D.C. on Inauguration Day.

Give your most radical voters a way to harmlessly vent, while keeping them in the fold — genius. Look for ranked-choice to twin with mail-in voting and be ubiquitous by the next election cycle.