07/25/2024 2:50:37 PM PDT
· 15 of 19 Twotone
to Extremely Extreme Extremist
No, it’s not. I’ve been reading quite a bit about it with this ballot measure coming up in Idaho. The biggest problem with it is it’s not auditable. Once you start messing with the numbers, you essentially just make a mess.
Besides, we’re supposed to have ONE vote. If people want to blow it on an outlier candidate, that’s their business. And when people get fed up with the main party candidates not doing what they should do, it opens it up to those outliers. But this essentially gives some people 2 & 3 votes. I don’t think that’s fair.
I’ve also read that Alaskans are thinking about rescinding their ranked choice system. It doesn’t appear to make them very happy.
07/24/2024 12:15:55 PM PDT
· 7 of 26 Twotone
to WashingtonSource
I wonder if he regretted what he’d done, or just knew he’d be caught & didn’t want to spend the next 20 years to life in jail. Very sad that idiocy over politics destroyed this young man.
07/22/2024 8:21:07 AM PDT
· 8 of 9 Twotone
to elpadre
Yes. Sneaky is the word. In fact, I was wondering if this person was actually trying to discourage D’s from voting for this ballot measure, or encourage R’s to do so.
And it got me wondering... Would a way to negate those 2nd, 3rd, 4th choices be to write in someone who isn’t on the ballot at all? If you could get a large enough bunch of people to do that, maybe the effect of rcv could be nullified to some extent. But it would be difficult to get a substantial number to do that, assuming this ballot measure passes.