Posted on 04/20/2025 11:42:43 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
RANKED-CHOICE VOTING IS ONE OF THE GREATEST THREATS TO DEMOCRACY.
It is a total, and very fraudulent, JOKE!
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5253950-ranked-choice-voting-unpopular-legislatures/
Action in state legislative sessions are proving that ranked-choice voting is as unpopular as ever.
After last year’s string of losses on state ballot measures, some progressive activists claimed they would fare better with lawmakers than they had with voters. Yet legislatures are not enacting ranked-choice this year — instead, they are banning the convoluted scheme.
The idea behind ranked-choice voting is to get voters to express “preferences” about multiple candidates, rather than just voting for one. This raises questions about one-person, one-vote, but that’s only the beginning of the problem. The system makes elections more difficult from start to finish, slowing the process and introducing new possibilities for errors and irregularities.
It starts with the ballot. In a normal election, a voter can vote once for each office. If there are six offices up for election, that means voting for six candidates — one for each office. With a ranked-choice ballot, however, if there are five candidates running for each of those offices, then a voter is supposed to “vote” 30 times, ranking all five candidates for each of the six offices.
This requires a longer, more complicated ballot with more instructions, more pages and more ways to make mistakes. The process takes longer, which means more ballots are left incomplete. Many voters simply don’t have an opinion about who is their third, fourth or fifth choice in many elections. Yet leaving rankings blank creates the possibility of a ballot being excluded from the final results.
Counting ranked-choice ballots must be centralized and can only proceed after all ballots are returned and adjudicated. Initially, only first-preference votes...
(Excerpt) Read more at truthsocial.com ...
When people refer to democracy when talking about our nation,
that ends their logic trail for me.
Our Founders touched on the problems with a democracy, and
they did their best to design a counter government as a
result.
We would have made out much better if he had come out in favor of RCV. /s
In my state, Peoples Republic of California, qualified parties are: Republican, Libertarian, American Independent, Green, Demo(comm), and Peace & Freedom. if i were forced to do the rank choice thing, this is how i would rank. P & F behind the Donks only because “The Internationale” is played on their website.
You don’t vote for 3 persons...You vote for one...Legislated or not, it is illegal to have this “conjured up” system which is easily rigged.
It’s the DEI of Voting ,LOL
I don’t have Truth Social. Can someone post the entire message? Thank you.
And yet a measure to eliminate it in Alaska failed. Ranked voting is the only way Murkowski has held onto power as long as she has.
“They’re” trying to work it in NV.
“””This raises questions about one-person, one-vote, but that’s only the beginning of the problem”””
I like that Trump brings up the long held idea of one-person, one-vote.
That makes it very easy for people to understand why ranked choice voting is a bad idea.
“””I don’t have Truth Social. Can someone post the entire message? Thank you.””””
As I understand it, Trump posted the link to The Hill opinion piece on his Truth Social.
Not to mention all the "hanging chads" they left behind.
Never heard that phrase before that, and never heard it since.
Once upon a time the Supreme Court enunciated the principle of “one person/ one vote.” Granted, it was in a districting case, but the underlying principle is the same regardless.
Ranked choice voting, it seems to me, is one person with several votes or, more accurately, one person and then someone decides where the other votes go. Sure, it could be argued that the voter knows what the stakes are when he casts a “second choice” on the ballot. But given the confusing rules, do they really understand?
In my opinion ranked choice voting isn’t Constitutional and creates an election that is fundamentally different from the one the voters thought they were voting in.
When I vote for a candidate, it’s because I have chosen that candidate above all others. I’m not casting a vote for any of the other candidates, and I don’t want anyone else to cast my vote for any of the others either.
I decided some time ago that I’ll sit out any ranked-choice election I might ever encounter.
Let’s all call this what it is and shift the narrative.
Rigged Choice Voting.
Rigged choice voting must be eliminated for election integrity.
As near as I can tell, this is what Trump had to say,
with a link provided above.
I want to qualify my comments with this regard. I agree
with the take here, but why must our side’s leaders play
into the “democracy” game with the democrats?
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RANKED-CHOICE VOTING IS ONE OF THE GREATEST THREATS TO DEMOCRACY.
It is a total, and very fraudulent, JOKE!
VOTERS REJECTED IT IN NEVADA LAST YEAR-—DESPITE EVERY POSSIBLE EFFORT TO CALL IT SOMETHING ELSE.
I’m not so sure it failed. Yes, it didn’t pass, but I watched the numbers on a daily basis (I live in AK). The final vote numbers would have us believe that more people cast votes in the RCV ballot than they did for increased minimum wage. Something is not right.
Candidate #1 (say: a Republican) gets 43% of the "preferred" votes, and 5% of the "second-choice" votes.
Candidate #2 (Dem) gets 44% of the "preferred" votes, and 5% of the "second-choice" votes.
But now comes a "dark-horse" candidate (#3) of a new, fringe political party. Say a "Ross Perot"-type character. While he gets only 12% of the "preferred" votes, he garners 90% of the "second-choice" votes - and is therefore declared the winner (because a majority of the voters found him "least objectionable").
Regards,
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