Posted on 07/16/2022 7:28:48 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Left is attempting to implement ranked-choice voting (RCV), also called instant runoff voting (IRV), in each state. RCV threatens election integrity and undermines the electorate’s ability to choose the best candidate in elections.
The May 10, 2021 issue of The New American magazine explains how ranked-choice voting works and why it would harm U.S. elections:
[It] is a complicated system that requires voters to assign a rank to each candidate on the ballot, regardless of whether they support that candidate. If no candidate is ranked first by a majority of voters, the lowest-performing candidate is eliminated. Voters who gave their highest ranking to the eliminated candidate then have their second choice counted instead. This process repeats until one candidate receives a majority.
As implied above, ranked-choice voting can lead to candidates with little genuine support winning elections. The system confuses voters, distracts from policy issues, and forces voters to vote for candidates they otherwise would not support. In the United States, ranked-choice voting was enacted in Maine in 2016 and Alaska in 2020. These efforts, primarily backed by liberals, led to Republican U.S. Representative from Maine Bruce Poliquin losing to Democrat Jared Golden in 2018 despite winning a plurality in the first round. Meanwhile, some political analysts believe that Alaska’s new system, which also eliminates party primaries, will enable liberal Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski’s reelection in 2022 despite her unpopularity among Republicans.
With any voting system, the more complicated it is, the greater the risk of manipulation strategies or fraud. Additionally, RCV would make hand counts much more difficult, creating an excuse for computerized vote counting. By contrast, genuine election integrity must involve hand-counted paper ballots.
Ranked-choice voting is already being used across the country. As mentioned above, Maine and Alaska have already implemented it statewide...
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Unacceptable. Burn it down before surrendering to the left.
The only leftist vote fraud will stop is when blood flows.
Sorry, only way...
All methods of CHEATING look great when your failed policies are about to get you fired.
Some people, however belatedly, are finally starting to wake up and understand how Rigged Choice Voting is a boon to liberals of both parties and, for the most part, the death of conservative candidates.
Alaska is the high-profile guinea pig for the latest experiment, and if/when liberals win the special House election in August and the Senate election in November, emboldened leftists will try to implement this garbage EVERYWHERE.
Even if the good guys prevail in Alaska, liberals will still observe that their candidates came a lot closer to upsets than they otherwise would have (under a normal electoral system) in this supposedly “Republican” state.
One well-established liberal maxim is: When you can’t beat your opponent, even with massive vote fraud, change (rig) the rules of how the game is played. That’s what Rigged Choice Voting is ALL about.
Runoffs are the alternative. There is something to be said for a winner needing 50% + 1 vote to win.
I think party ballots are an answer. Party recommends the picks and the voter chooses the ballot to submit. Quicker. More accurate. Doesn’t have to be forever as this country will cool down someday.
Ranked choice voting plus universal mail in voting means one party rule.
Yes, this is true. History has demonstrated this over and over.
It’s not just RCV.
Because even states and major metros that don’t have RCV have RCV-enabled voting machines...
Handy, that.
The GOPe pushed this BS through in Alaska to save the horrible Murkowski.
Some here advocate for it. I never understood their reasoning. Seems dumb that a second place ranked candidate could be the winner.
I don’t like that either. Had we not have stupid run offs, we’d have the senate.
When it comes to voting 2 times I’d like to think we’re more motivated. Guess not.
I don’t have a problem with ranked choice voting, and I think that the arguments against it are weak.
There is only one reason Democrats and Assistant Democrats like you want “ranked choice voting.”
Can you guess what that reason is?
yep. they did this in Alaska, I think. Could save the wildly unpopular Murkowski.
this and the “universal popular vote” must be destroyed to save the republic.
Ping
Ranked choice voting ensures that the winner in an election has majority support while eliminating the expense of runoff elections. It certainly will be regrettable if it helps Lisa Murkowski get reelected, but I suppose that says a lot about the Alaska electorate. There really is no good argument I have ever seen against ranked choice voting, but I do oppose forcing voters to rank all candidates. And shouldn’t you do something to improve your bad manners and hotheaded temperament? You won’t convince anyone of anything behaving like that.
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