One party is strongly for it, the other party can’t figure out what to do or say.
GEEZ US, RANKED CHOICE IS THE ...WORST...METHOD OF VOTING.
THE DEMONCRAPS HAVE FOUND A WAY TO ...STEEL ELECTIONS UNDER THE GUISE OF MORE CHOICE...
DO NOT FALL FOR THIS ABOMINATION. THIS IS THE WAY THE LEFT HAS STOLEN ELECTIONS...ESPECIALLY IN ALASKA.
When voting, chose the FIRST person you want...and let the rest of the nominees fend for themselves.
According to “FairVote”... That tells me all I need to know. If they call themselves FairVote you can bet they are not all interested in voting being fair.
What the hell is wrong with the way we’ve been doing it for the past 234 years?
Absolutely the last nail in the Nation’s coffin...
Coming to NV soon. Unions pushing it.
Another dem party scheme to steal elections, over and over agian.
bttt
It’s an insane idea
Just one of a number of reasons I continue to assert that there are no more political solutions.
It’s not just ranked cheating.
RCV is the excuse to RCV-enabled voting machines in states that still don’t have them.
Here’s a question: If NYC is so reliably lib, why does NYC now have RCV...?
The UniParty solution to MAGA...
despite bipartisan “CONCERNS” its out right voter fraud and once again the GOP goes along
Absolutely stupid. My vote is my vote for the candidate of my choice. It’s not ever to be abrogated to some other candidate due to some stupid statistical rank.
The first prob w/this is you have to rank ALL candidates, including those of parties you may not like, and rank accordingly. For most, the ranking of all but the top couple of candidates will be arbitrary.
I.e. The ticket will not just have a bunch of R and D candidates, but independents or even other parties. Recognize that there will be multiple Rs, Ds, and Is.
Let’s say, you are usually for R, against D, and dismiss out of hand the I’s. So you go list your R candidates only on the ballot.
If it turns out all the R’s lose, since you did NOT rank ALL candidates, you now have no vote in the D vs I runoff.
The next election, you’ve got it beaten into your head you need to rank ALL, but how to do? How good of a comparison are you going to make against all those candidates you’re not really interested in? Something may come up in the elimination rounds that changes your mind per the lower choice candidates, especially since those folks will garner more media attention in the runoff days.
So, a big problem w/RCV is that it forces voters to rank ALL candidates PERFECTLY based on a certain set of available candidates, which is not going to happen.
The reality is that the voter’s choice of ranking will change depending on who is left on the battlefield. The only chance to preclude that is to make a PERFECT ranking of candidates up front because the eliminations are handled automatically.
But there is no way to do that. Let’s say I’m going for the independents. My ranking may change depending on who actually gets the most votes.
I.e., say there are 2 Rs, 2 Ds and 2 Is. Of the Is, R voters generally would prefer I #1 but D voters generally would prefer I #2. Let’s also say, I like both sides of the aisle to “foster a spirit of cooperation”.
So say I really want an I and my favorite is #1, I’ll tolerate an R, and I don’t like the Ds. I also think the R will beat the Ds easy.
So I vote for my I #1 but to my surprise, a D takes the most votes. Had I actually known in advance that would be the case, I would’ve selected I #2 as my top choice since the Ds hate I #1 so much.
Even though I “learned my lesson” last time and ranked all candidates, I am still screwed.
So the ultimate problem w/RCV is that not only must you perfectly rank all candidates, you must also be PSYCHIC -knowing in advance who tops it in the first round. Indeed, you have to know the full sequence in which elimination will occur.
How is this constitutionally legal? Assigning my vote to another person cancels my choice!
We got stuck with ranked choice voting here in what used to be Alaska. We had a clear choice at first between a flaming democrat (Peltola) and a conservative (Begich). Then on the last possible day to file that disengenous cheerleader Palin jumped in in another attempt to be relevant. Owing to the mechanics of RCV this resulted in Peltola winning the seat formerly occupied by Don Young. BTW Peltola was strongly supported by our famous RINO Murkowski.
Voting for a Democrat would be a RANK CHOICE.