Posted on 11/07/2019 9:07:55 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
New York City voted on Tuesday to change the way it determines election winners. With approval from more than 73% of voters, the Big Apple joins Maine and countries including Australia and New Zealand in adopting what’s known as ranked-choice voting.
This popular electoral system allows voters to rank candidates by preference, meaning they can submit ballots that list not only their first-choice candidate for a position, but also their second, third and so on.
Ranked-choice voting advocates, including Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, who has championed it as a key policy initiative, say it could help prevent evermore polarized election campaigns, increase the number of women and minority candidates running for office, and reduce negative campaigning. Critics say that the new system could make elections much more complicated for voters and be abused by parties trying to game the system.
In addition to Maine, which has adopted the system statewide, several states are experimenting with ranked-choice voting. Alaska, Hawaii, Kansas, and Wyoming plan to use ranked-choice for voters in the 2020 Democratic primaries, and Nevada plans to use it for early voters in their 2020 Democratic caucuses, according to FairVote, a nonpartisan group that advocates for election reform.
“We are really settling on ranked-choice voting as the most promising reform to democratize and depolarize our politics,” says Larry Diamond, the former director of Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. “I think it’s not only here to stay but that it’s gaining support across the country.”
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The process really shouldn’t be streamlined as it’s just a way for socialists to game the system by going for being second choices and then getting elected by splitting majority votes and getting in as as second and third choices. This happens all the times in places like Australia that regularly lists 25 candidates from ridiculous parties that end up diluting conservative votes. One person should have one vote - not a preference sheet and if need be we have a run-off. It might work in a parliamentary system but not in ours.
Correct
So if your election looks like this:
Democrat: 49%
Republican: 46%
Conservative: 3%
Libertarian: 1%
In today’s paradigm the Democrat would win.
In ranked choice the Conservative and Libertarian voters would have selected the Republicans as their second choice. Hence all of those votes would swing to the Rep, giving him the win.
This is another method for Democrats to cheat. Republicans mark their candidate in column 1 and return their ballot. The Democratic polling agents then fill in box 2, 3, etc for their candidates on the Republican’s form.
so they will get to choose between two commie/nazi-style far far leftist D candidates every election
tweedledee and tweedledumb
just like in the once-great state of Californication
a permanent far leftist LOCK on public offices, governmental power
Soroz’s wet dream come true.
What the article does not mention is that this is only for primaries not the general election.
San Francisco has ranked choice in their elections.
Unconstitutional - it violates one man, one vote.
Needs to be challenged in the Supreme Court.
Of course, Roberts will see it the democrat way.
“Unconstitutional - it violates one man, one vote.”
Nonsense
This has positive and negative- I think eliminating the last place candidates and voting again would be better.
Please don’t post when you don’t know what you are talking about.
Are you an alias for John Roberts?
I wasn’t aware of that. Thanks for the mention.
These Leftists want to screw with everything.
“Please don’t post when you don’t know what you are talking about.”
I could say the same about you.
There is absolutely nothing unconstitutional about ranked choice/instant run-off voting.
I would think so, since these rules are set by the states.
Hard to say.
I saw this in Australia. A real mess.
No one knows the result of the election for days, or weeks.
Recount after recount, because everything changes with each recount.
Why should elections be any different.
Don’t think it matters. Even Indiana is turning blue. Our Indianapolis D mayor won reelection 71-28, the democrats won 6 more seats on the city council four, had been GOP for years, three historically republican towns in suburban Indianapolis went heavily democrat, Columbus is now democrat for the first time in 36 years. I fully expect that next year my district which has been republican since the 70’s will go democrat. Our republican Rep is retiring and the democrats have three young candidates running. Two college educated millennial women and a millennial Gay guy. The republicans are going to run an old 50ish white guy. It won’t be pretty. Hamilton County, which up until 2018 was listed as one of the reddest counties in America is the county all those new democrats got elected in. The change is driven by an influx of young techy types who work for companies like Salesforce and Infosys. They are well paid, college educated, deeply irreligious, mostly white, predominantly female, despise anybody with an R behind their name and solidly progressive. Think AOC with a brain.
The republicans worst nightmare is coming true. The millennials are becoming politically active. They are voting and running for office. And they are not conservative or republican. We my have one more election to win, but by 2024 the good times are over. Demographics and 20+ years of propaganda disguised as education are catching up to us
Won’t get any argument from me.
Throughout history, once the people can vote themselves money from the treasury, the nation is doomed.
We allowed ‘welfare’, and income taxes to pay for it. Nowhere was there taxation without representation in the constitution.
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