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D.C. Council adopts ranked choice voting, affirming November ballots
The Black Media Authority ^ | July 15, 2025

Posted on 07/15/2025 5:52:32 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Washington, D.C. council members voted to approve funding for ranked choice voting July 14 in the first of two votes on the District’s budget.

The measure, known as Initiative 83, would allow unaffiliated voters to participate in the party primary of their choosing and gives voters the option to rank candidates on the ballot from their most desired contender to the least.

The winning candidate must receive more than 50 percent of votes to advance as the elected official. If no candidate wins that majority, then an “instant runoff” occurs: The candidate who received the fewest first-choice rankings is eliminated, and voters who ranked the now-eliminated candidate first have their ballots added to the totals of their next-choice candidate, according to the Campaign Legal Center.

D.C. Council members affirmed support for Initiative 83 in an 8-4 vote during the council’s budget hearing after a majority of Washingtonians voted in favor of ranked choice voting in the November election.

(Excerpt) Read more at afro.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: cheating; demagogicparty; districtofcolumbia; elections; rigging

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1 posted on 07/15/2025 5:52:32 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Lol. It’s been so close lately.


2 posted on 07/15/2025 5:53:47 PM PDT by JZelle
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To: MinorityRepublican

Don’t they mean ranked choice skin color voting?


3 posted on 07/15/2025 5:55:21 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you have asylum in the U.S. and you go home to visit family, is it like violating a Protect Order)
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To: MinorityRepublican

And the start of dominating the mid terms begins.

18 months left to get whatever we need done.

After that, it’ll all grind to a halt


4 posted on 07/15/2025 5:56:36 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I believe so.


5 posted on 07/15/2025 5:56:36 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I guess they don’t even have to bother campaigning anymore


6 posted on 07/15/2025 6:00:02 PM PDT by Lod881019
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To: MinorityRepublican

Ranked Choice Cheating.


7 posted on 07/15/2025 6:12:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Glorified find the pea under the shell con job is what ranked choice voting is .

That and stealing my vote and giving it to someone i didn’t vote for .

Dems know all the scams


8 posted on 07/15/2025 6:31:16 PM PDT by cuz1961 ( )
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To: FlingWingFlyer

What worked in Alaska to squish Palin can work anywhere. Democracy saved from fair representative republic procedures again...yay!(/s)

Another reason to decentralize the central government by distributing branch offices all across the states. At this point NO judicial hearings except local and traffic should be held in District of Columbia.

In fact, it should be civically dissolved and returned to Maryland, leaving just the Executive, Congressional, Judicial, Monuments, Museums and Parks and Library remaining.


9 posted on 07/15/2025 6:51:06 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Our ignorance fills an ocean; our knowledge a thimble. The trick is knowing their bounderies.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

A buddy is involved trying to stop this stupidity in his state. At a recent hearing the proponents were shocked to have actual organized opposition.


10 posted on 07/15/2025 6:56:57 PM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: cyclotic
A buddy is involved trying to stop this stupidity in his state. At a recent hearing the proponents were shocked to have actual organized opposition.

Eventually they will have RCV in every blue state.

11 posted on 07/15/2025 7:00:37 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
THEM. IT'S ALWAYS THEM.

12 posted on 07/15/2025 7:08:10 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’d make a hefty bet that the origins of ranked choice voting are liberal.


13 posted on 07/15/2025 7:14:20 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: MinorityRepublican
D.C. Council adopts ranked choice voting (RAT always wins)

Yup, time has come to abolish the city government and for Congress or the Administration to take back control of DC.

14 posted on 07/15/2025 7:32:38 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Show me a RAT, I'll show you a felon.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

RCV needs to be outlawed.


15 posted on 07/15/2025 7:43:45 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

That’s the way to get Communists onto a ballot without traditional party backers at first.

Then smile for the big crowds.


16 posted on 07/15/2025 7:54:13 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Nuc 1.1

RCV needs to be outlawed.

I was just ready to say that.

The stupidest, sneakiest, evil con game I’ve ever seen

ABSOLUTELY...OUTLAW IT. It’s insanity.


17 posted on 07/15/2025 8:32:14 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: MinorityRepublican

Afro-demokracy.


18 posted on 07/15/2025 8:36:19 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave e them.-S.Adams)
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To: MinorityRepublican

shell game afoot once again


19 posted on 07/16/2025 3:10:27 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: MinorityRepublican

RCV is among the most onerous of Libturd plans, in keeping with the tenets of their gods...Cloward and Piven.


20 posted on 07/16/2025 3:13:47 AM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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