Contrary to what opponents claim, ranked-choice voting is not a complicated system. On Election Day, voters get a ballot, go behind a curtain and mark the oval next to the name of their favorite candidate. For some, that’s all they’ll do. If there are more than two candidates in the race and a voter has a second choice, the ballot has a place to register that preference.

The voter can rank all the candidates or none. It’s the kind of decision that everybody makes every day of their lives. If you ever wanted strawberry ice cream but the store had only chocolate and vanilla, you ranked your choice by buying one of the other flavors or by skipping ice cream altogether. There is no trick to it.