Posted by dahsdebater on 11/7/2020 11:10:00 AM (view original):
Another interesting tidbit: after the 2016 election, for a time some Democrats were calling for states to adopt ranked-choice voting. It would have allowed Hillary to win in 2016.

If there had been ranked-choice voting in 2020 Trump would almost certainly be re-elected. He'd almost certainly be leading in PA, leading comfortably in Georgia, Arizona, and North Carolina, and he would probably have won Wisconsin.

Another way of looking at the same idea: if the Greens had been in the ballot in the battleground states again this year Trump would probably have had similar results as he did in 2016. Given the razor-thin margins it's hard to imagine that Trump wouldn't have won at least Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Arizona with a Green candidate on the ballot. This was initially an intentional decision, although Howie tried to get on the ballot in some states at the last minute.