 until you see a ranked choice ballot right the average ballot in this country has 17 candidate races and the most common form of ranked choice voting that they're pushing is called final five which is where in the november election each one of those races would have five candidates and you the voter are now responsible instead of learning about two candidates you're responsible for learning about five and then ranking each of those in order of preference so now instead of going through a ballot with those 17 races and picking one person in each out of two