Posted on 07/03/2021 6:57:06 PM PDT by Libloather
Frustration over delays and tabulation mishaps in New York’s Democratic mayoral primary is fueling a wave of Republican opposition to an increasingly popular election structure change.
Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton called it a “corrupt scam.” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy dinged it as “woke.” New York Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney argued that it “disenfranchises” voters.
Jason Snead, executive director of the conservative-leaning Honest Elections Project, said ranked-choice voting is a “solution in search of a problem.”
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Ranked-choice voting, also called an automatic runoff, is a system of relocating votes from bottom-tier candidates in races with at least three candidates to subsequent preferences until one candidate reaches at least 50% of the vote. According to FairVote, the system is used in two states, one county, 26 cities outside of Utah, and 23 Utah cities.
Advocates argue that ranked-choice voting could eliminate anger over the “spoiler effect” that independent candidates sometimes have and may lead to friendlier campaigning, as well as save money on runoff election costs. Most systems allow winners to be chosen with a simple plurality, though some systems, including Georgia's, mandate runoff elections if no candidate wins a majority.
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Can it be that there is just oo many elections and people refuse to pay attention to all of them?
That is how they go and vote like “.... mmmm .... sourdough ... I like that”.
That is also how the school board gets filled with nutcases. People just don’t care.
S.F. brass is bad as it is, but if it were up to them it would have been Loftus and she seems normal.
No high-ranking California democrat endorsed Boudin. He was endorsed by Bernie Sanders and various other out of state crazies.
I think there should be runoffs, not ranked voting. There’s no way to game runoffs in a way that that doesn’t also apply to an election with no runoff.
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