Ranked Choice Voting has been the subject of much controversy especially this year. Many Republicans have charged that such a system favors the Democrats. Ironically it is the liberal Politico that seems to have accidentally validated that charge.
On Wednesday Politico published a story by Steve Shepard about Republican candidates surging in the midterm election polls, “A slate of races now lean Republican in our latest forecast update.” The story begins with a report on how the Red Wave in that election is beginning to look much more likely:
The GOP is tantalizingly close to its goal of taking the House majority in three weeks, after an at-times-uneven, two-year campaign to flip the chamber.
POLITICO’s Election Forecast still rates the race to control the House as “Likely Republican” — but of the dozen newest updates, 10 individual contests moved in Republicans’ direction.
Two new races are moving into the “Toss Up” column, both in districts President Joe Biden carried by double digits in 2020. One of the two new toss-ups is in Oregon, where Democrats are struggling up and down the ticket.
Ah, but amidst this possible Red Wave there is one bright spot for the Democrats in the Red State of Alaska. more
That is on the ballot here in Nevada.
Idiots won’t read the amendment properly and it will probably pass…
“Republicans Sarah Palin and Nick Begich”
Split the conservative vote, their guy wins.
Happened here in Neb., now the choices are RINO or Dem.
Why do you think the Bush/Rove junta has pushed “Ranked” for 25 years?
If memory serves “ranked choice” was the brainchild of one Lannie Guenier, a radical activist. To anyone who actually read the process of counting votes, it was clear that this was just a disguised vote-count manipulation scheme. It opened the door to election shenanigans of all sorts.
We have RCV here in Maine.
Even though it violates the State Constitution which says candidates win if they get a plurality of votes not majority.
Judges in this state are liberal activists.
Bruce Poliquin should have won Cong. Dist. 2 but because of RCV Golden won and without a majority.
It’s how they cheat. It is no longer one person one vote.