@jacksantucci Here in Arlington, Va., we have a five-member county board elected at large to staggered four-year terms. One of every four years, two seats are filled, with each voter getting two votes. As you’d expect, it produces a panel with no diversity of views. #RCV is under consideration but wouldn’t fundamentally change that. You: “We should take the single vote as given, then use other components of the rules to get us closer to whatever outcomes we might agree on.” (1/?)
Click through to start the video at 1:13:00 or so (to skip right to the RCV problems).
I'm now a fan of #STAR#voting. The part where Alameda County screwed up their #RCV counts and actually seated the wrong candidate, discovering their fuck up a month later is just.. wow.
@Andres4NY Good to see discussion about this, but it’s just not true that there’s anything inherent in #RankedChoiceVoting that requires a single point of failure or that causes delays in counting votes. Jurisdictions have been holding back second- and third- (etc.) place votes just to make things appear simpler. But there is a limited number of permutations of ballots in any #RCV election, and computers are perfectly capable of recording and reporting on each.
We've all had a day or two to process what the Supreme Court just did.
The battle for our country and for the rule of law, not of oligarchs, lies ahead of us. Let us recommit to it now, and with grave determination resolve to turn this tide back in 2024.
Great that #Oregon voters will have an opportunity to adopt #RankedChoiceVoting for local and statewide primary and general elections in 2024. One thing I'm afraid they're overlooking: The Presidential electors chosen by #RCV need to be freed up to vote for their assigned candidate OR a different candidate, perhaps one chosen by their assigned candidate. Otherwise OR voters would fear that voting for a third-party candidate would deprive their preferred major-party candidate of electoral votes.
I'm a huge fan of #RankedChoiceVoting . Apparently, it's going to be on the ballot in Oregon in November 2024, and will apply to all statewide and federal elections including primaries. It's a huge boost for democracy, as it allows people to move past the party duopoly of Dem/GOP and vote for 3rd party candidates without fear of giving the election away to the greater of 2 evils.
Fun fact, I helped with the campaign to get #RCV passed in Benton County, Oregon in 2016.
A victory for the RCV campaign in November 2024 would be a significant breakthrough for voting justice, as it would liberate voters in Oregon from being required to vote for just one candidate.
The (paper) voter guide only lists my city council candidates. It does not list civil court judges or anyone else who might be on the ballot. You have to know to go to NYC DOE's website, go to "find my pollsite/view sample ballot" so see who's actually on the ballot.
You've gotta do this in advance of going to your poll site, and then (w/ #RCV) memorize the order you want to vote for candidates in.
We won't have #RCV in all 50 states for the 2024 election. But #CornelWest and #MarianneWilliamson support RCV, and in that sense are at least hinting that they don't want to be spoiler candidates who hand the election to #Republicans. Of course they may be spoiler candidates anyway. But is RFK even hinting that he doesn't want to be a spoiler candidate?
@rbreich It honestly feels too late to proselytize for #RankedChoiceVoting, but #RCV is TRULY the one thing that I feel can save American democracy. Without it, this ever growing divide seems like it will never stop growing. https://bit.ly/RCVProCon
#RankedChoiceVoting (#RCV) is so easy it can be explained in 1 toot. Simply rank candidates in your order of preference; 1st favorite, 2nd favorite, etc. A candidate has to get >50% of the vote to win. If they don't there is an instant runoff (shown below) Source: http://linktr.ee/voterchoiceaz
Oregon voters will soon get to decide whether to adopt ranked choice voting statewide (www.nwprogressive.org)
A victory for the RCV campaign in November 2024 would be a significant breakthrough for voting justice, as it would liberate voters in Oregon from being required to vote for just one candidate.