Posted on 06/09/2024 2:41:53 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Yes and as a bonus for GOPe who shoved it through it took out Palin
> It is very easy to win a ranked choice election. Just get more votes than your opponent.<
That’s not how it works. You need 50% + 1. In a recent RCV the third place finisher in the first round ended up winning.
It looks like the best way to game RCV is to have a bunch of people vote for the obvious loser and then their preferred candidate as second choice.
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“Yes and as a bonus for GOPe who shoved it through it took out Palin”
It saved Murky and got them a Democrat Rep. Let’s all do it. (s)
Designed to insure democrats win all elections. We need to stay with the electoral college to even have a chance as a republicab.
Ranked choice is corruption.
Murkowski has used it so well, it should be called the Murk system.
It screws everything up. Alaska for example. Palin and Begich were the Republicans. Only 1 Dim. Peltola. Too many idiots hate Palin so they wrote in Peltola as their next choice after Begich.
Palin had the most, then Peltola, then Begich not far behind. Drop Begich from the end, give votes to Peltola; and BAM! We have a Dim Rep.
All it does is divide your votes, and it ends up rewarding the party smart enough to nominate 1 candidate, kind of like normal voting!
I said earlier it can be rigged by having fewer candidates than the opposing party. And Democrats will enter "Republicans" into the race to achieve that.
Yep. To make it worse in Alaska, the law also changed to make the primary “jungle” primaries. It’s such a crock.
Related update...
Here’s the problem, though: Even states without RCV still use RCV-enabled electronic voting machines.
Why is that, hmmmm...?
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