Trust in American institutions is at historic lows. The answer from the Progressive Left? Make voting and counting ballots even more complicated.

Ranked-choice voting is their latest fad to remake elections. It makes voting harder: longer lines, more mistakes, and lower turnout. And it makes election administration so complicated that, in 2022, one California county certified the wrong winner in a school board race.

In this Broadside, two election experts explain what ranked-choice voting is, who is behind it, and why it threatens the integrity of our elections.

TRENT ENGLAND is the founder and executive director of Save Our States, which since 2009 has defended the Electoral College. He is the David & Ann Brown Distinguished Fellow at the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, a producer of the documentary Safeguard: An Electoral College Story, and a former legal policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation. He is also the author of Why We Must Defend the Electoral College, another Encounter Broadside.