I’m not a lawyer but I’ve heard this phony form of voting could be challenged Constitutionally, and the sooner the better.
Maine has it and apparently it’s none too popular up there.
Alaska has it and we all know how that worked out.
Utah Governor is pushing for it there. The same guy who, on some type of Zoom call, giggled and gave his pronouns.
And now Georgia will be next.
For each round of processing inside a computer, the last place voters get their 2nd place choices as a vote.
RCV effectively gives the last place candidate’s voters chances to vote more times than the 1st and 2nd place candidates.
Plus, if we thought the chances of cheating were elevated due to mail-in and early-voting, imagine ALL the possibilities of cheating when the selection happens in a computer, obfuscated by each voter “voting” with a spreadsheet of votes.
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.
I’m not a lawyer but I’ve heard this phony form of voting could be challenged Constitutionally, and the sooner the better.
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I call this form of voting
Shell game.
It’s vote theft by weasel.
They take some votes away and give them to someone else.
It’s a particular weasely form of fraud .