{"id":58819,"date":"2025-03-19T12:28:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T16:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=58819"},"modified":"2025-03-21T06:14:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T10:14:33","slug":"something-every-state-should-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=58819","title":{"rendered":"Something Every State Should Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/03\/19\/west-virginia-wyoming-secure-elections-with-ranked-choice-voting-prohibitions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Federalist<\/a> posted an article about ranked-choice voting. This is a method of voting where voters choose three candidates in the order they prefer them.<\/p>\n<p>The article explains it this way:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Often referred to as \u201crigged-choice voting\u201d by its critics,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/ranked-choice-voting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RCV<\/a>\u00a0is a system in which voters rank candidates in order of preference. If no candidate receives more than 50 percent of first-choice votes in the first round of voting, the last-place finisher is eliminated, and his votes are reallocated to the voter\u2019s second-choice candidate. This process continues until one candidate receives a majority of votes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article notes that a few more states have outlawed this practice:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>West Virginia and Wyoming took major steps toward securing their elections by passing prohibitions on the use of ranked-choice voting (RCV).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>On Tuesday, West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey signed into law <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvlegislature.gov\/Bill_Status\/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=490&amp;year=2025&amp;sessiontype=RS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SB 490<\/a>, which stipulates that \u201c[n]o state, county, or local elections office may use ranked choice voting or instant runoff voting to conduct an election or nomination of any candidate in this state for any local government, statewide, or federal elective office.\u201d Any \u201cexisting or future ordinance\u201d adopted by a local government promoting the use of such a system would be declared void under the measure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every state needs to do this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, The Federalist posted an article about ranked-choice voting. This is a method of voting where voters choose three candidates in the order they prefer them. The article explains it this way: Often referred to as \u201crigged-choice voting\u201d by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=58819\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15005,11815],"class_list":["post-58819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ranked-choice-voting","tag-the-federalist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58821,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58819\/revisions\/58821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}