Ranked-choice voting (RCV) has been put in place in various voting districts in America. The supporters of this idea claim that it gives voters more of a choice in elections. Actually, it does a really good job of confusing voters and electing peoples’ second choices rather than their first choices. For instance–if five people vote for candidate A, four people vote for candidate B and three people vote for candidate C in the usual election process, candidate A wins. In RCV, if seven people listed candidate C as their second choice and no other voters listed a second choice, candidate C would win. It’s a confusing system where no one wins.<\/p>\n
On February 27th, Alaska Public Media<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n A ballot measure to repeal Alaska\u2019s ranked choice voting and return to a partisan primary has cleared an initial review.<\/strong><\/p>\n Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom, who heads the Alaska Division of Elections, announced Tuesday that sponsors of the anti-ranked choice initiative gathered nearly 37,000 signatures \u2014 about 10,000 more than necessary. She said the state is still in the process of verifying all the signatures.<\/strong><\/p>\n Phillip Izon, director of the group sponsoring the repeal, said he doesn\u2019t expect they\u2019ll have any trouble meeting the threshold.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWe did a lot of work on validation, verification. Spent many months on it. So we feel very confident,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n The signatures come from 34 of Alaska\u2019s 40 voting districts \u2013 four more than the law requires.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Alaskans for Better Elections is defending the new voting system and campaigning against repeal. Its director, Juli Lucky, said her group heard of anomalies in the signature-gathering process, so they plan to examine the petitions once they\u2019re made public.<\/strong><\/p>\n The implementation of RCV is Alaska is probably responsible for the fact that Lisa Murkowski currently represents the State of Alaska in the Senate.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ranked-choice voting (RCV) has been put in place in various voting districts in America. The supporters of this idea claim that it gives voters more of a choice in elections. Actually, it does a really good job of confusing voters … Continue reading