History doesn't support GOP claims on ranked choice voting

Ricahard Winger, Ballot Access - The Republican Party says that whether a party uses ranked choice voting or not can change the outcome of the individual who wins the party’s primary, so it is a fundamental burden on the party to be told that it must used ranked choice voting. But then the brief mentions that in 1860, if Abraham Lincoln had not been the party’s presidential nominee, all of U.S. history would have been different. This is a strange example, because the Republican Party has always nominated its presidential candidates under ranked choice voting, in a sense. All major party presidential conventions in the United States have always held multiple votes until at least one candidate had a majority of the delegates (and the Democratic Party did so until a candidate got two-thirds of the delegate votes, through 1932).