Posted on 11/23/2022 7:35:17 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man
As I noted, I’m not crazy about this type of voting. Nor am I crazy about runoffs like what Georgia is experiencing. If a candidate has the most votes with 10% of the vote, they should be the winner.
They all had an opportunity to rank choice their votes, but what you're not considering is that the poll-favored candidate is extremely unlikely to ever have their 2nd or more choices exercised. The same could be said for the runner-up candidate.
So, ranked-choice voting is really a mirage. The only candidates who would ever have their lower choices applied are the spoiler third-party candidates. So why should those voters be allowed the have their votes changed? What's so special about the fringe candidates that their voters can change their minds while the top candidates' voters cannot?
If you look at it mathematically, RCV is actually a hyper-spoiler tactic. For example, the Libertarian candidate knows that they won't win the election, but they will take away votes from the Republican candidate, or two Republican candidates split the vote (because Democrats have party-discipline). So the Democrats sponsor a third-party candidate who prevents a 51% win, and then those people put the Democrat as their 2nd choice. Without the RCV, the Republican and Democrat go head-to-head in a run-off, and all voters get to change their minds.
That's why RCV is unconstitutional; it purports to combine the general and run-off elections into one, but only the voters for the least-popular candidate get to change their votes, when a separate general and run-off election would allow all voters to change their votes.
It's an unconstitutional deprivation of the rights of the voters who supported the candidates who actually had a chance to win, and gives an outsized power to the voters of the fringe candidate to select the winner.
-PJ
Encouraging the jackassin’ of the Backstabber Party is a bad look.
Sarah Palin knew about RCV, as crazy as that is when she got in the race. She needed to adapt, improvise and overcome - she did not.
She was not nearly as popular in 2022 as she was in 15 years years earlier.
I'll bet you believe The Narrative on Florida and Georgia, too.
I had to keep correcting my pal on Florida, even though he knows better.
I'm not surprised that the Begich voters switched to the Democrat. The real question is how many new voters would have turned out in a run-off, but RCV precludes voters who sat out the general from changing their minds and deciding to vote in the run-off election?
-PJ
RCV is a recipe for confusion and lack of confidence in elections.
Plus, if you look at the math of how it works, it does have the potential to disenfranchise voters.
See https://lawliberty.org/the-flaws-of-ranked-choice/
Please tell me *specifically* the narrative you are referring to.
Engineered outcomes for The Narrative.
Okay, understand.
Walker is a flawed candidate who can still win. Those flaws were known prior.
I believe DeSantis did win by a large margin over a flawed candidate as well. Crist is just awful.
Walker wins if he can GOTV. If not, it’s over.
Yes, DeSantis DID win by a large margin over a flawed candidate - but not for the reasons that you think.
The Dems pulled the monetary support for their Florida vote fraud factories to set up the 2024 "Narrative" for DeSantis. Plus, they needed the money elsewhere.
If the Dems need Florida in 2024, their vote fraud troops will be back in force, with bells on.
Stick a fork in Walker.
The Uniparty apparatus needs his defeat for The Narrative, and to punish MAGA & Trump.
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