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From Time.com
Pretty straightforward to me. But grandma gets confused, so we can't possibly implement it.
/s because it'll probably be needed
That is literally the problem. People resistant to change (willfully or not) don't want RCV.
No /s required.
Where I live we have RCV for some local government stuff but central government voting is MMP, which works quite well (except in the opinion of our conservatives). TL;DR: you vote for a candidate and also for a party. The party vote essentially sets how many seats each party gets in parliament, the candidate vote is for who represents your electorate.
I just don’t get the issue though. It doesn’t really matter if they understand the intricacies. Simply list the candidates in order of preference and let it play out.
Most people don’t even understand how our current electoral system works but they don’t seem to be raising a stink about it lol
And many of the ones that have no clue think they understand. But regardless, the entire concept of American Exceptionalism that gets hammered into us from birth means that whatever we have now is "the right way." Changing things challenges that concept, which many have internalized as part of their core identity. Which... gestures vaguely at the overall political landscape ...yeah.