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The problem with ranked-choice voting: The voting method that did Sarah Palin in
American Thinker ^ | 02/12/2023 | Thomas Buckley

Posted on 02/13/2023 9:42:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: antidemoncrat

You’re not wrong. Free elections in this country are a thing of the past.

If the pubbies cheated the same way the left does, the leftist justice system would totally have people in prison and elections overturned, while the same grade, or worse, evidence of Dem election cheating would be “debunked”, starting with the media all the way through the courts.


21 posted on 02/13/2023 11:07:09 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist. I'm white. How does that make me racist?)
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To: llevrok

“whenever there are voting changes in the name of “equity”, conservatives become less than equal.”

Political quote of the day - Ima stealing it ...

Two things about RCV:
1) can be defeated by running ‘trojan horse’ candidates
2) violates ‘one person - one vote’


22 posted on 02/13/2023 11:21:33 AM PST by ByteMercenary (Slo-Joe and KamalHo are not my leaders.)
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To: sima_yi

Violates the principle of one person, one vote.

Also make it really difficult to audit elections (a feature, not a bug)


23 posted on 02/13/2023 11:24:37 AM PST by ConjunctionJunction (Vim vi repellere licet)
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To: SeekAndFind

There is no problem. This is a solution to people getting more and more election integrity laws passed. So they need another instrument to enable corruption.


24 posted on 02/13/2023 11:26:02 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Nifster

Is RCV CONSTITUTIONAL?


25 posted on 02/13/2023 11:45:29 AM PST by LeonardFMason
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To: LeonardFMason

Hasn’t been challenged yet


26 posted on 02/13/2023 11:48:05 AM PST by Nifster ( EI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: LeonardFMason
Is RCV CONSTITUTIONAL?

No. The Alaska legislature did not approve it or vote on it.

27 posted on 02/13/2023 12:22:31 PM PST by marktwain
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To: Venkman

Then write in Your own name or names of super heroes.


28 posted on 02/13/2023 12:28:04 PM PST by Fai Mao (Stop feeding the beast, and steal its food!)
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To: sima_yi

In theory, it’s not different from Louisiana’s jungle primary and runoff.

In practice, it took what - several weeks to count the votes?
That’s plenty of time to produce fraud.
Also in a regular election, if there is a recount, the winner rarely changes but the actual count does change.
Yet with RCV, the second count is exactly the same as the first.


29 posted on 02/13/2023 12:37:10 PM PST by scrabblehack
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To: Fai Mao

Unless/until this crap is repealed in Alaska, that is what I will do, and that is what I did last election.
Voted for repubs only, no way I will ever vote for a rat in any way, shape, or form.


30 posted on 02/13/2023 1:20:42 PM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: marktwain

Is anyone taking this sham practice to court?


31 posted on 02/13/2023 2:05:39 PM PST by LeonardFMason
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To: dsrtsage

Rank voting is just another vehicle to steal an election and elect someone that was not even in the running. Just think of kamala Harris a big zero that was chosen is just like rank voting


32 posted on 02/13/2023 2:13:01 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: LeonardFMason

It was challenged in the Alaska state courts, but has not been challenged in federal court, I understand.


33 posted on 02/13/2023 2:33:33 PM PST by marktwain
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To: hanamizu
In Virginia after 1670, freeholders in possession of at least one hundred unsettled acres, twenty-five homesteaded acres, or a building lot in Norfolk or Williamsburg, traveled to county or town courthouses on election day to publicly cast their vote for their candidate to the House of Burgesses.

Progressing the Constitution - One Man One Vote.

34 posted on 02/13/2023 2:58:09 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: SeekAndFind

RCV is unconstitutional.

I await the challenge because no government can tell me that my first choice will not count unless I vote for lesser candidates.


35 posted on 02/13/2023 3:00:17 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: ByteMercenary

“violates ‘one person - one vote’”


A concept discovered by SCOTUS which invalidated pretty much how most state legislatures operated. The states modeled their governments after that of the U.S. The lower house represented voters and the upper house represented territory. This meant that rural areas had power in the upper house and urban areas in the lower.

SCOTUS decided that this was just wrong and that both houses in state government had to be based on population—one man, one vote. Oddly you won’t find the phrase or even the idea in the Constitution itself. But there we are.

We are so fortunate to live in a system where nine unelected men and women can decide important things for us.
/s


36 posted on 02/13/2023 3:50:09 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: Maine Mariner

Yep murk endorsed the rat because she is one


37 posted on 02/13/2023 8:23:53 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Blue Collar Christian

And all it seems the Republicans can do to counter the Dems cheating is wring their hands and say ... just wait till the next election ... it will be a red wave.


38 posted on 02/14/2023 6:13:44 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: antidemoncrat

I concur. If the pubbies cheated the same way the left does, the leftist justice system would totally have people in prison and elections overturned, while the same grade, or worse, evidence of Dem election cheating would be “debunked”, starting with the media all the way through the courts.


39 posted on 02/15/2023 5:44:08 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist. I'm white. How does that make me racist?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Update...

https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/17/minnesota-could-be-third-state-to-adopt-ranked-choice-voting-following-alaska-and-maine/


40 posted on 03/20/2023 9:30:20 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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