There was a lot of hand-wringing about California's "jungle primary" and whether or not it would cost Dems critical House races. A ranked-choice jungle primary might be a better option.

You don't need to vote (rank) the republican candidate at all.
I intend to rank 1st and 2nd only among the dem and indy
Does anyone see an unintended consequence of not ranking the republican?

I was kind of wondering about that myself. Hopefully, someone who knows something about this will respond.

I got here by googling the question. I was looking forward to rank-choosing the governor's race, given the possibility of repeats of 2010 and 2014 on a 4-candidate ballot. I think non-republicans are going to split the vote among Mills, Hayes, and Caron. No lessons learned in Maine, I fear.

Yeah, at least ranked choice will help in the national elections and the fight to use it in gubernatorial elections is definitely not over.

I hope there a lot more of "you" than "them" in CD 2!

is good because it lets independent voters be useful for once.