Posted on 10/26/2025 10:23:07 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Cities all over the state will be holding municipal elections in under three weeks. Four of the state's largest cities — St. Paul, Minneapolis, St. Louis Park and Bloomington — will be using ranked-choice voting for their elections.
In previous elections, some of the ranked-choice systems have had unexpected outcomes. For example, in the 2013 Minneapolis mayoral race, it took 33 rounds of balloting over three days before Betsy Hodges was declared the winner over Mark Andrew.
Flash forward a decade to the 2023 Minneapolis City Council race in Ward 8. In the first round, Soren Stevenson beat Councilmember Andrea Jenkins, but neither reached the 50% threshold. That election went to the second round, when the second-place votes were assigned, and Jenkins finally met that 50% threshold; she won the council seat.
"Some people would say it's not fair. But also, some people are going to say that if someone's going to take office, they should get 50% plus, that it should be a majority," said Professor David Schultz with Hamline University, who is writing a book on ranked-choice voting.
Looking to the 2025 Minneapolis mayoral race, Minnesota Sen. Omar Fateh, Rev. DeWayne Davis and Jazz Hampton have formed a pact to lobby for each other's second- and third-place votes. Schultz says together they are using ranked-choice voting in an effort to block Mayor Jacob Frey from reelection.
Ranked-choice voting has also impacted election day turnouts in past contests. According to FairVote, an organization that advocates for ranked-choice voting, Minnetonka saw a 50% voter turnout increase from 2021 to 2023.
Nationally, Alaska and Maine use ranked-choice voting for some statewide elections. In 2024, an effort to expand ranked-choice voting to cities around the state failed in the state legislature.
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It’s nicknamed “ranked choice cheating” for a reason. The method was rammed through by democrats, so they never will lose control of the biggest cities. Gaming the system.
Minneapolis is lost, turn out the lights.
The clearest example that ranked choice is a scam is shown in that democrats don’t use it in union voting.
should be abolished its stealing an election, period
Ranked Choice Voting is just that...rank.
It is an election travesty built out of Dhimmicrap desires to secure their control forever.
Stop it!
This is how Alaska gave the nation Lisa Murkowski!
“… it took 33 rounds of balloting over three days …”
Some people’s votes count 33 times while others only count once. Why does a computer program take 3 days to do such a simple task? It reeks of cheat.
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Don’t forget Susan Collins in Maine.
The number of ‘rounds’ should be equal to the number of candidates -1.
How could there be 33 ?
If it takes them weeks to count an election using the normal count of majority, RCV should only take them about 2 years.
After an election with RCV, how would anyone do a recount ? No one would be able to figure out who won. Imagine trying to canvas the voting by post voting interviews. No one could keep track of multiple ranks.
Let’s say there are 5 candidates. That would give 120 different combinations.
I fail to see how ranked choice voting is Constitutional as it would violate the one person one vote rule. Many voters, if their preference of candidates is eliminated, won’t vote in subsequent rounds of voting, while others will vote for their candidates and multiple times.
Thanks, I wasn’t aware that Maine used that insane voting system.
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