where a candidate who initially had 1% of the vote ended up winning after they went through the comical process. I noted, with heavy sarcasm, that nothing could possibly symbolize democracy better than that, right? He fell silent. I licked salt in the wound by adding that ranked choice voting is popular among lefties who don't like election outcomes where their "extreme" candidates rarely win, so they came up with the hilarious ranked choice system to circumvent the will of the people. Democracy.