Posted on 11/06/2024 4:28:06 PM PST by 11th_VA
Voters across the country weighed in on ranked choice voting ballot initiatives Tuesday, with a vast majority rejecting the system amid an intensifying debate over its effects on elections.
RCV, which allows voters to rank candidates by preference rather than selecting only one, has faced mounting opposition at both state and local levels. This year’s election results featured a mixed outcome, with state-level ballot measures predominantly failing but some cities voting to adopt or maintain RCV.
Here are the major takeaways from RCV ballot initiatives from the 2024 election:
Measures to implement RCV in Oregon and to introduce RCV and open primaries in Colorado, Idaho, and Nevada all failed.
Missouri went even further, with voters passing a measure to ban RCV altogether. These setbacks for RCV advocates reflect a growing resistance against the system’s complexities and a belief that it can distort election outcomes in favor of special interests.
A notable example of voter pushback came in Alaska, where RCV had only been in place for a single election cycle before voters were asked this year whether to repeal it. As of Wednesday afternoon, the vote to repeal was slightly ahead with about three-quarters of the vote counted.
Alaska’s case became emblematic of voter frustrations with the new voting style, which some say led to confusion and questioned the integrity of election outcomes.
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The leftists who opposed this probably realized it could be gamed by the opposition just as easily as the left could. It would be a matter of who played it better.
But that is my uninformed speculation since I don’t know enough about ranked choice voting to know how one side can use it to advantage.
Since both Rs and Ds opposed it in nearly equal numbers I’ll also speculate that the support for it comes mostly from globalists not domestic leftists.
I remember it was used in Alaska and thus Murkoski kept being elected although very unpopular with many Alaskans. WHatever it make be, is seems clearly very rotten.
Thank goodness the voters of Colorado didn’t like the sound of this! With the amount of money behind it ( so many ads!), I was deeply concerned.
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