YUGELY !
Posted on 02/29/2024 3:07:24 AM PST by cotton1706
The Maine Republican Party says it won’t recognize ranked choice voting in the March 5 presidential primary, adding another layer of complexity to an already confusing election.
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BALLOTS SET FOR RANKED VOTING
Despite the party’s opposition, Maine’s official Republican primary ballots are set up for ranked choice voting consistent with state law. The ballots offer voters the options of picking second and third choices.
The state’s Republican party reiterated its position in an email to voters Tuesday, the day after early absentee voting started for the March 5 primary.
“Mainers will vote on RCV ballots, but the first round of results will be the only round recognized by the party,” it said.
(Excerpt) Read more at pressherald.com ...
Primary is Tuesday.
If they make it all confusing enough, then no one will have any idea who won — until, you know, the Democrats tell us.
YUGELY !
I work as an election clerk in Maine. We had a workshop yesterday in preparation for the presidental primary next Tuesday. Your observations were spot on. RCV is very confusing to voters (and election officals as well)>
If no candidate gets more than 50%, the last-place candidate is eliminated and that candidate’s votes are redistributed to their voters’ second choices. That process carries on until one candidate wins more than 50% of the vote and is declared the winner.
How the heck is that “fair”? If A is at 49%, B&C combined can be be at 51% so B wins? Yeah, I get that B may not be the same person...still....
Stupidest system ever devised for voting.
Complexity and confusion create fertile ground for vote fraud. When no one really understands how the process works (RCV, “black box” voting machines, voting “week”/“month”, etc.), it becomes dead easy to inject large numbers of fake votes without anyone knowing for sure, or at least being able to prove conclusively, that fraud occurred. The machines, in particular, seem to serve no purpose other than making the process needlessly complex and opaque.
Ranked Choice Cheating is being pushed by the left. It’s working well for them, wherever they’ve installed it.
RCV is part of the reason Minneapolis is a leftist utopia./s
There will never be another decent Mayor or City Council in Mpls.
FWIW, that is how the Oscar for Best Picture is chosen - through rank choice voting.
It’s supposed to be the better way to choose your politician since it is considered a consensus choice. However, Maine’s CD2 congressman was chosen that way. The R won the first round but the democrat, Goldman won the second choice of the third place finisher and now he will never lose as in incumbent.
Dems are trying to use RCV in many other jurisdictions, but I think the reason they like it is because it is confusing and it is easier to manipulate the outcome they want, but maybe I am just a bit jaded.
Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) is Un-Constitutional, because it subverts the primary purpose of the Electoral College:
For each state to vote as a member of the college of states - a weighted system, so that less populated states have some representation.
That more equitable representation among the states, is of course, in contrast to the wish of the communists and socialists, that the President be chosen by popular vote - leaving California and New York states, plus about three more states, choosing the President.
“Ranked Choice Cheating is being pushed by the left.”
You are correct as the left has figured out how to game RCV. The most often used trick is this: the left pays 2-3 relatively unknowns to run on the R side of the slate while running only one candidate that the left wants to win. This dilutes the R vote as many folks will vote against the R candidate by selecting a down ballot R. Even with the internal machinations of RCV, the diluted R vote is seldom enough to overcome the D vote. There are other schemes also.
G-d forbid that the FedGov ever is trusted to define how states should conduct their voting systems. But if that were to happen we must be sure that RCV is forbidden.
It also clearly violates the principle of “one person, one vote” by counting an EXTRA vote (a do-over) to only those whose first votes were cast for a losing candidate.
Maine, Alaska, NYC all have RCV for the same reason.
RCV should be done away with.
And so should all those RCV-enabled electronic voting machines.
And isn’t it interesting that states without RCV still use RCV-enabled voting machines.
Funny how that works.
Ranked choice is nothing but a way for the loser to win. I notice that this system is being pushed in “red” states. Who in these states decides that rank choice is the new “law”. I actually think that system is unconstitutional.
. . .which is why the Leftish fans had it installed for the Hugo Awards.
And which we Sad Puppies fought a rear-guard action against/ / /
If Donald Trump get more than 50% of the total votes cast, it won’t matter. RCV will not apply.
I think he is well on his way to doing that.
We do have several candidates on the ballot who have withdrawn so their results will show in the blank ballot column. Although Ryan Blankley has withdrawn, I do not know what effect it has on the Maine vote counting process since it was so recent.
Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) is Un-Constitutional, because it subverts the primary purpose of the Electoral College:
RCV may be unconstitutional in a presidential general election setting, but parties are free to choose what ever method they wish to choose their nominee.
RCV #2 is President Trump! So would #3, #4 and #5
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