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Posted on 12/13/2022 8:40:18 PM PST by qaz123
CTH took considerable flak for reporting on the uniparty system of Georgia politics prior to the 2020 midterms. With the election in the rearview mirror, the Georgia Secretary of State is now proposing to permanently codify Democrat control of the state.
(Via Reason) […] Speaking to The New York Times last week, Raffensperger said he would petition the state legislature with three separate proposals. One would force large counties to open more locations for voting early. Another would lower the vote total needed to avoid a runoff from 50 percent to 45.
The third proposal is the most consequential, and the most interesting. Raffensperger will also state lawmakers to consider switching to a ranked choice ballot for future elections.
(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
Help Democrats to keep counting till they win.
Oh look, more vote frauf.
I’m not sure why so many think that a libertarian would vote for a Republican. Almost to the person, the libertarians that I’ve met are more Center-Left than anything else.
As Alaska, I’ll have to disagree with it being an anomaly. The Democrats in Alaska elected Murkowski. Alaska has a Senator and House member, neither of which getting a majority.
Just another way to cheat.
The RATS sure came up with a fool proof way to steal electoons with that dumbass Ranked Choice system for use with ignorant and retarded “voters”.
I live in Maine. Maine was the first state to have rank choice voting.
It was on the ballot some years ago and passed.....twice.....by the voters. I myself don’t remember seeing it on the ballot, and people say the way it was worded was very confusing.
In 2018, the incumbent GOP Congressman in Maine’s Second Congressional District “lost” re-election even though he received 2,200 more votes his RAT challenger, Jared Golden, a Maine veteran of the Afghan war.
There were two minor candidates in the race.
In order for a candidate to win, he or she has to receive 50% of the vote plus one additional vote.
Neither the GOP or RAT candidate received that many votes, so the “second” choice of voters were counted and the RAT won after a several week process. I myself left the second, third, and fourth ovals blank.
The GOP candidate, Bruce Poliquin, sued. The judge ruled that rank choice voting is valid for federal elections in Maine, since the federal Constitution does not mention a plurality of votes needed for election.
Maine’s state Constitution DOES mention a plurality of the votes needed to win a state election, so RCV would not apply to state elections, i.e., governor, Maine House seats, Maine Senate seats, etc.
Massachusetts voters said “no” to RCV several election cycles ago.
In California, the state Assembly and the state Senate passed RCV twice. Both Gov. Brown and Gov. Newsome vetoed the bill.
The Government Class Oligarchy is moving very fast to seal in their power forever.
We are going to make Imperial Rome look like a paragon of virtue in comparison to the Hell Government we are creating here.
If Brad was on fire, yeah, he might deserve someone’s pee.
How did he have a lock on 50% when he didn’t get 50%? Your graph shows two candidates, but there were three running.
Guilty as charged, but Stacey Abrams isn't my Governor.
I believe that graph is the data from the runoff, and the engine that created it is the same as from the election, thus the title “midterm”.
You can go to the “midtermcrimedesk” web site and run these off for most states and most races.
There aren’t enough democrats in Alaska to elect anyone. It is more accurate to say that moderate Republicans elected Murkowski.
Look, it is like a runoff election, except you pre-vote on it. If there had been a runoff, it probably would have ended up the same way.
OK, but I’m saying that in the main election, in a ranked choice system, the libertarian votes largely should have gone to Walker in the second round.
“I’m not sure why so many think that a libertarian would vote for a Republican”
Libertarian in AZ dropped out and endorsed Masters. I know the GA Libertarian is more of a kook, but the typical L voter is more in the Ron Paul zone, at least here in Texas.
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The numbers there are too hinky.
Did you see my analysis? I've posted it a couple of times.
I told them over and over.
So humility keeps you from posting the Georia flag—and you would have been even more of a carpetbagger when you became a Freeper.
I know what you mean. I’ve been in Ontario for 28 years, 22 in the most Northwestern county (the vast majority of the province geographically has yet to be settled enough to be organized into counties). It is isolated and rural—the county is Ontario’s equivalent to backwoods Mississippi. One isn’t local until one’s grandparent’s are burried in the cemetary, but the folks who have never been out of the area don’t understand how good they have it in many ways, and all the great things that are being lost.
Metro, urban, suburban or rural?
I grew up in the backwoods of Oregon, and it sounds to me that Georgia is about where Oregon was in the 70’s. When the point of no return is passed is hard to gauge—I’d say that Oregon actually hit it in ‘84, but people with an excess line of hope might find grounds for deluding themselves until about 2000.
US Senate US Senate GA Governor
2022 2020 2022
Chase Oliver Shane Hazel Shane Hazel
81,353 115,039 28,162Amazing how former Marine Shane Hazel was able to force David Perdue into a run-off in 2020 - but he couldn't get anyone to vote for him a scant two years later.
MEANWHILE, the LGBTQ poofter Libertarian Chase Oliver suddenly gained a huge following - forcing Herschel Walker into a run-off in 2022...
Methinks that a bunch of Perdue and Walker votes got "adjudicated" into Libertarian "votes".
Heck, Kemp probably peeled a bunch off Shane Hazel in the governor's race.
Nice to have the inside track on the machines, like former SOS Kemp and current SOS Rattenspewer both do.
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