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  • As states grapple with election integrity, two new congressmen aim to outlaw ranked-choice voting

    05/15/2025 6:21:57 AM PDT · by george76 · 9 replies
    Just the News ^ | May 13, 2025 | Charlotte Hazard
    Rep. Abe Hamadeh said ranked-choice voting is pushed by corporate interests and confuses voters.. Rep. Abe Hamadeh, R-Ariz., is joining forces with a fellow freshman lawmaker to renew efforts in Congress to outlaw ranked-choice voting nationwide. Hamadeh and Rep. Nick Begich, R-Alaska, recently introduced the Preventing Ranked Choice Corruption Act that would amend the Help America Vote Act to ban ranked-choice voting. The bill pairs Begich, whose state uses ranked-choice voting, with Hamadeh, whose state has chronically dealt with issues of election integrity, and voter trust in ballot counting. "Ranked-choice voting destroys 'one person, one vote' in our country and...
  • Ranked-choice Voting: Leftist Attack on Election Integrity

    07/16/2022 7:28:48 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 54 replies
    The New American ^ | July 14, 2022 | Peter Rykowski
    The Left is attempting to implement ranked-choice voting (RCV), also called instant runoff voting (IRV), in each state. RCV threatens election integrity and undermines the electorate’s ability to choose the best candidate in elections. The May 10, 2021 issue of The New American magazine explains how ranked-choice voting works and why it would harm U.S. elections: [It] is a complicated system that requires voters to assign a rank to each candidate on the ballot, regardless of whether they support that candidate. If no candidate is ranked first by a majority of voters, the lowest-performing candidate is eliminated. Voters who gave...
  • Minneapolis tries ranked-choice voting (IOW - Instant Runoff Voting)

    10/26/2009 7:10:12 AM PDT · by MplsSteve · 17 replies · 493+ views
    Minneapolis StarTribune (aka The Red Star) ^ | 10/26/09 | Steve Brandt/Mary Lynn Smith - Staff Reporters
    What's different about voting in Minneapolis this year? You get to rank three candidates in each election contest. That's ranked-choice voting, the system the city is launching for municipal races. So in the 11-person mayor's race, you may rank one candidate as your first choice, another as your second, and a third as your final choice. "It's a lot less confusing than it sounds once somebody explains it," Nancy Harrington, who rarely misses an election, said at an informational workshop at Webber Neighborhood Center last week. But there are some pitfalls to avoid. Think of the grid of candidates and...
  • anyone had to vote in IRV before? (instant runoff voting)

    10/14/2009 1:42:38 PM PDT · by WOBBLY BOB · 11 replies · 483+ views
    me ^ | 10-14-09 | wobbly bob
    I wonder why the same poeple opposing voter ID are the same favoring IRV ? why are "progressives" often on this bandwagon?