Posted on 06/09/2024 2:41:53 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
As the number of states banning ranked-choice voting (RCV) is increasing, some are facing ballot measures this November that would implement the voting system.
While 10 states have banned RCV and more may join them this November if voters vote for the ballot measures, six other states will have ballot measures to switch their elections to RCV.
RCV is an election process whereby if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote, then a runoff system is triggered. When voters cast their ballots, they rank each candidate in order of first-to-last. RCV is being introduced in states across the country, but is facing pushback from both sides of the political aisle, including efforts to ban it.
If one candidate doesn't reach the 50% plus-one vote threshold, then the candidate with the least amount of first-choice votes is eliminated, then second-choice votes from those who voted for the last-place finisher are reallocated among the remaining candidates and tallied – in a process that continues until a candidate receives the majority of the vote.
Proponents of RCV argue that the system results in representative outcomes and majority rule, incentivizes positive campaigning, allows for more voter choice, and saves money when replacing preliminaries or runoffs, according to pro-RCV organization FairVote.
Alaska and Maine use RCV in elections statewide, and three counties and 45 cities use RCV, according to FairVote.
Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Idaho, Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Tennessee have banned RCV. Alaska has a ballot measure on the November ballot to repeal RCV. Alaska held its first ranked-choice election in 2022, which wasn't decided until two weeks after...
(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...
Runoffs can be just as bad. That’s how the GOP lost the senate seat to Warnock — two stubbornly stupid Republican candidates handed him the victory.
The Consequences of Georgia’s Runoff: Leftists Call For Radical Legislation After Warnock Projected Win: End Filibuster, Pack The Courts, 3 New States, 6 New Democrat Senate Seats
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I think that RCV will work well, but only when combined with closed partisan primary elections. That combination would let new parties most effective challenge the Rats & the Pubbies.
It is very easy to win a ranked choice election. Just get more votes than your opponent.
It is very easy to rig a ranked choice election. Just have fewer candidates than the opposing party.
Ranked Choice Vote Fraud was instituted in Alaska to keep write-in candidate Murkowski in the Senate.
It worked.
Why trust RCV when we cannot even have clean elections and clean voter roles?
I remember when the libtards could not figure out to use a butterfly ballot in Florida in 2020. I don’t think they got any smarter since then.
You misspelled "Flori-DUH."
It’s an “incumbent protection” scam. Murkowski would not have been re-elected last time without it.
Good one but I did mean to say 2000 NOT 2020.
RCV should be banned everywhere—get back to our roots, one vote, per person.
I think ranked choice voting is on the November ballot in Nevada.
two stubbornly stupid Republican candidates handed him the victory.
not stupid.
intentional.
Some of the republican commies here in pa are for it.
this is a socialist plot but you already knew that.
every city in CA that has used ranked choice has ended up with communist left wingers winning seats that they would otherwise have lost in a first past the post election (or runoff). Just say no.
RCV enshrines the DNC in power
Also, as opposed to run-off elections, ranked choice voting doesn't allow for people who didn't vote in the general election to cast votes in subsequent "rounds." Only the general election voters who "ranked" their vote get to have votes counted in "run-off" rounds.
Ranked-choice voting actually disenfranchises most voters.
-PJ
Maine has RCV for it’s two federal House seats and two U.S. Senate seats, as well as the presidency.
It’s NOT used in races for the Maine House, the Maine Senate or for Governor.
It needs to be repealed. It cost GOP congressman Bruce Poliquin his U.S. House seat in 2018, even though he received 2,200 MORE votes (but did not break 50%).
Yes it does.
See that Democrat utopia, Minneapolis, MN.
Ranked Choice Cheating established in city elections a few cycles ago.
It’s working out wonderfully, don’t you think? MinneSomalia
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