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re: Ranked Choice voting...
Posted on 12/13/22 at 2:16 pm to Jax-Tiger
Posted on 12/13/22 at 2:16 pm to Jax-Tiger
I think RCV is actually worse than what we have now.
As uninformed as voters are today, imagine having to rank candidates that you wouldn't normally care about. Not only does an informed voter consider his or her own preferred candidate and potentially that of their opponent, but now they have to look into the views and positions of all others on the ballot in order to make an informed choice. Good luck getting informed votes from that when so many are too lazy to even look into anything beyond the R or D next to someone's name.
And what happens if you decide to only rank one or two candidates? Well in the end, your ballot can be completely thrown out if who you voted for didn't make the cut for the final count. You can have ballot exhaustion (where people don't vote for every possible candidate), and that could result in the winner not even having a majority support of the voters. What RCV can do is result in winners of elections that don't actually have any real support.
No thanks.
As uninformed as voters are today, imagine having to rank candidates that you wouldn't normally care about. Not only does an informed voter consider his or her own preferred candidate and potentially that of their opponent, but now they have to look into the views and positions of all others on the ballot in order to make an informed choice. Good luck getting informed votes from that when so many are too lazy to even look into anything beyond the R or D next to someone's name.
And what happens if you decide to only rank one or two candidates? Well in the end, your ballot can be completely thrown out if who you voted for didn't make the cut for the final count. You can have ballot exhaustion (where people don't vote for every possible candidate), and that could result in the winner not even having a majority support of the voters. What RCV can do is result in winners of elections that don't actually have any real support.
No thanks.
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Posted on 12/13/22 at 2:19 pm to FooManChoo
Ranked-choice voting adopted in Democrat states like California, Colorado, Massachusetts, and New York. Not used in Southern states and specifically barred in Florida (SB524, signed into law in 2022, barred the use of ranked-choice voting in any election). Buyer beware.
Posted on 12/13/22 at 2:50 pm to FooManChoo
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As uninformed as voters are today, imagine having to rank candidates that you wouldn't normally care about.
You don’t have to. Leave it blank if you’re too dumb to inform yourself before showing up.
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And what happens if you decide to only rank one or two candidates?
Common sense. Your vote isnt redistributed to a second choice if you don’t list one.
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You can have ballot exhaustion (where people don't vote for every possible candidate), and that could result in the winner not even having a majority support of the voters.
You mean just like traditional runoffs where a significant portion of voters don’t show back up?
RCV is just an instant runoff
This post was edited on 12/13/22 at 2:52 pm
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