Posted on 11/06/2024 4:22:28 PM PST by cotton1706
Colorado, Idaho, Nevada and Oregon rebuffed efforts to adopt ranked-choice voting in their future elections, dealing a setback to a group of wealthy donors who wanted to dramatically change how Americans choose their elected officials.
The one bright spot for advocates of ranked-choice voting was the District, where a referendum was approved by a wide margin.
Under this system, voters rank their top choices in elections. If the top vote-getter wins a majority, the election is decided in their favor. But if no candidates get a majority, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated.
Voters whose top choice are eliminated then would have their ballot cast for their next selection. The process, also known as an “instant runoff,” is repeated until one candidate receives a majority of the vote.
The practice is already in use in Alaska and Maine. But Alaska voters, who initially approved ranked-choice voting in a 2020 referendum, are considering a referendum to undo the change.
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Add Arizona to that list of Rigged-Choice rejections.
When is the GOP going to get rid of open primaries? Are they fighting the idiocy of ranked choice?
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of GovernmentU.S. Const., Art IV, Sect. 4)
A republic is a representative form of gov't and "ranked choice voting" is not representative.
It gave me great satisfaction to watch this stupidity defeated in Oregon.
I hate RCV with a passion.
the District,
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The elections over there are already rigged! This cannot make it nay worse!
It could actually be turned against the Dems over there?
Maybe?
Open primaries are set by state law, not the party.
The origin of them was in the D-controlled, segregationist South, which controlled Republican opposition through the open primaries. Recently states have adopted it, like California in 2010, for the same reason.
Thank you, I didn’t know the state forced the issue.
The only vote that DC residents have total control over is the vote for Electors to the Electoral College. Votes for mayor or city council members don't really matter because anything the council chooses to do must face Congressional scrutiny before being enacted.
-PJ
You right.
As far as the Electors, they have too many.
For the small city, they have three!
DC should be returned to Maryland!
That way, they will get their “representation” they are so longing for and, maybe, one Electoral vote.
But, for now, let them have their ranked voting!
I bet, they will get tired of it pretty soon too!
I hate to break it people, but for some strange, inexplicable reason, even states that do NOT use RCV use RCV-enabled electronic voting machines.
Now why do suppose that is...? 🤔
We need to get rid of RCV, hear that Gotham, but we also need to GO BACK TO DUMB VOTING MACHINES.
Arizona ranked choice got on the ballot by fraud anyway.
They did not have enough valid signatures. AZFree spend bunch of resources to prove they had thousands of duplicate signatures, somebody even signed like 20 times.
When this got to court, they drugged the thing by stupid arguments to keep it alive, just to make it over the deadline.
Once it got on the ballot, judge decided they will not be counted.
By some appeals, they forced to count it, again forcing us to spend money on opposition.
If it were to pass, there would be many lawsuits over it.
I am so glad, the voters put this idiocy to the ice and spared us further headaches.
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