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To: Round Earther

Ranked choice voting for Federal offices is unconstitutional. It dilutes the vote of committed single candidate voters and gives voters for fringe candidates more than one vote. This was pushed in Alaska by Murkowski supporters who simply wanted to disrupt the movement away from her towards Trump supporters like Palin. It is just another scheme to undermine one-man-one-vote and the 14th amendment equal protection under the law.


22 posted on 09/01/2022 8:05:28 AM PDT by Dave Wright
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To: Dave Wright
I don't like ranked-choice voting, but I don't believe it is unconstitutional. "One man, one vote" is a buzz phrase and appears nowhere in the Constitution. All the Constitution really requires is that each individual's voting rights be the same, and they are. Nor is there any Constitutional requirement that a system benefit committed single-candidate voters.

Certainly at the Presidential level, there isn't even a requirement that voters participate at all. It would be entirely constitutional for a state to decide that its presidential electors will be determined by the state legislature.

33 posted on 09/01/2022 8:28:08 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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