Politicians shouldn't get to pick their opponents. Read our Op-ed in the LA Times.

Read Cal RCV's and FairVote's Op-ed in the LA Times on March 8, 2024: 

Opinion: Steve Garvey’s strange win is a loss for California election reform. Here’s the solution

"Why did the Burbank Democrat spend a small fortune boosting Garvey’s name recognition and blanketing the airwaves with ads that touted the former first baseman’s conservative credentials? You might call it a squeeze play: Schiff wanted to keep his two closest Democratic competitors out of the fall race, and he succeeded. Garvey claimed the second-highest vote total in the top-two primary, while Democratic Reps. Katie Porter of Irvine and Barbara Lee of Oakland finished in third and fourth, leaving them out of the running.

This is a classic example of a problem that could be solved by ranked-choice voting, a tested, nonpartisan reform that discourages this sort of gamesmanship and more accurately represents what a majority of voters want."