Lisa Murkowski benefited from ranked-choice voting in 2022, and may rely on it again in 2028. Photo: Ting Shen/Bloomberg/Getty Images For a while there, the electoral reform known as ranked-choice voting (or as some call it, instant runoff voting) had some momentum. The idea was that traditional first-past-the-post general elections often disenfranchise popular majorities and promote major-party hegemony along with partisan and ideological polarization. Often combined with the abolition of