"By the way, a question for progressives: If equity consists in making human beings equal to one another, why is it just or reasonable to rank them?"

Seems like a professor of government at Harvard would be well versed in False Equivalence... (To be clear, I propose that treating people with equal dignity\respect is NOT the same as choosing your preferred representatives in order of preference)

To the rest of the article, I struggle mightily with her first point (roughly, that a voter only REALLY wants their first choice). I don't know about everyone else, but I have never encountered a candidate that perfectly reflects my wishes and would positively relish the ability to indicate a second-best.