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Lawmakers advance ranked choice voting as primary possibility (WY protecting Cheney)
News.yahoo.com ^ | 6/7/21 | Margaret Austin

Posted on 06/08/2021 3:22:27 AM PDT by cotton1706

Some Wyoming lawmakers are pushing for changes to the state's primary election process, but it is still unclear exactly what the changes would be or if they could go into effect before the 2022 election, when Congresswoman Liz Cheney will face off against a crowded field.

During meeting of the Wyoming Legislature's Joint Corporations Interim Committee meeting Monday, Election Division Director Kai Schon said the Secretary of State's office recommends the Legislature take up the issue during the 2022 session to implement the changes for the 2024 election, due to a need for a constitutional amendment. But during discussions, he added that a ranked choice voting process could possibly be put into place quickly, before the 2022 primary.

The discussions on changes to the primary process are continuing from a bill that died in March that would have created a runoff election system, and the committee will continue discussing the possibility going forward.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: elections
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First Alaska to protect Murkowski. Now Wyoming to protect Cheney.
1 posted on 06/08/2021 3:22:27 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

“Ranked voting” is designed so votes for Ralph Nader or Jill Stein go to the Dem...


2 posted on 06/08/2021 3:26:29 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: cotton1706

Maine has it, too.

And HR1 has RCV provisions.

Deep State is finally dropping the mask.


3 posted on 06/08/2021 3:28:24 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: cotton1706

BTW, the voting process isn’t the only problem.

The other is the RCV-enabled voting machines.

That software is mighty handy...


4 posted on 06/08/2021 3:29:35 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: mewzilla

BTW, looks like WY already has the RCV enabled machines...

https://buckrail.com/wyoming-makes-statewide-switch-to-new-election-equipment-vendor/


5 posted on 06/08/2021 3:32:24 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: mewzilla

March 2020 on that above link. Right when CoupFlu started. What a coinkydink.


6 posted on 06/08/2021 3:33:22 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: cotton1706

Is this really gonna help Chaney? If there’s a sizable number of people who are voting against her instead of for a specific candidate, this ranking isn’t really going to help her is it?


7 posted on 06/08/2021 3:35:55 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: cotton1706

A vote isn’t real unless it includes “none of the above” as a choice that gets tallied and can win.


8 posted on 06/08/2021 3:40:42 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: nickcarraway

Ask Collins and Murkowski.


9 posted on 06/08/2021 3:41:15 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: xzins

There’s an answer for that.

Establish a None of the Above party.

Select as a candidate someone who’s willing to get sworn in then quit after winning.

Would work better for House seats than Senate seats, I suspect, unless Ron DeSantis is your governor.


10 posted on 06/08/2021 3:43:21 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: nickcarraway

The RCV provisions are in HR1 for a reason.


11 posted on 06/08/2021 3:43:58 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: nickcarraway

Depends on how many R candidates run. They split the votes wider and all she needs to do is get a few more votes than the next one.

As the reshuffle count starts all she has to do is have a couple more votes at the end and she wins.

If her and 8 others run and she gets 20% and the others 10% each she wins the first shuffle.

For somebody else to win every R Voter would have to place her dead last on their ranked choice ballot.


12 posted on 06/08/2021 4:04:35 AM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: PeteB570

its actually about getting tight enough vote differentials to be able to pull off a fraud.

These guys organizing this wrote the book on that process


13 posted on 06/08/2021 4:06:39 AM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: cotton1706

Here is where President Trump could truly help. Vet a good candidate early and back him or her loudly and often. One Trump rally in WY would seal the deal.


14 posted on 06/08/2021 4:12:11 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: cotton1706

I like ranked choice voting. It’s much cheaper than a runoff.


15 posted on 06/08/2021 4:38:46 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: cotton1706

Primary elections, if they exist at all, should not be run by State governments or regulated by State legislation.

Allowing that legitimizes the two major parties and gives them millions of dollars they would otherwise have to raise.

Let the parties run their primaries. Sink or swim.


16 posted on 06/08/2021 4:43:10 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice)
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To: PeteB570

If all the candidates that run appeal to anti Chaney voters then they will put her in last place. I expect there will be a lot of anybody but Cheney voters. If there wasn’t this rank voter Option, Then she might be able to beat a group of anti-Cheney candidates. But if there’s ranking Everyone can vote for their own anti Cheney candidate and just rank her last.


17 posted on 06/08/2021 4:50:33 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: mewzilla

Don’t do it, it almost always favors the RATS!


18 posted on 06/08/2021 4:54:55 AM PDT by WellyP (question!)
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To: WellyP

Last time I checked, Murky and Collins are Pubbies.

Hint: This ain’t about party.

The only reason two parties still exist is to give voters the illusion of choice.

Candidates are either loyal to our former republic or to Deep State.

Guess which candidates RCV will ensure win...


19 posted on 06/08/2021 4:57:20 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: mewzilla

I don’t think Chrney isn’t the same situation Lisa Murkowski was. Murkowski never lost her constituents as much as Cheney did.


20 posted on 06/08/2021 4:57:23 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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