Posted on 11/01/2013 1:50:32 PM PDT by DManA
Heads up. Rank Choice Voting - More progressive insanity coming your way.
BTW, This is NOT satire.
that is F’n crazy $h!t. What are these idiots on?
Considering their senator is FrankenAl, how could we be surprised LOL.
That election was stolen the old fashioned way.
"If no candidate received more than the required threshold of first choice votes, the ranked choice process kicks in. The candidate who received the lowest number of votes is eliminated, along with any candidates who have no mathematical possibility of winning. Their votes are reallocated based on the second-choice votes on those ballots. If that process leaves one candidate with more than the required threshold of votes, that candidate is declared the winner."Your vote may be counted as a vote for someone other than who you voted for!
This can't possibly be legal, outside the corrupt fiefdom.
if I understand the explanation correctly: if your FIRST choice on your ballot was for the candidate with the least amount of first choice votes, then your SECOND choice candidate would gain another first-choice vote. The new amount of first-place votes would then be counted, and the same process would repeat for the candidate now with the least amount of first-place votes. I do not see how your vote gets counted for someone other than a person you selected as either first, second, or third choice. Outside of the possilbility of this complicated system getting screwed up that is, which is likely
What happens? "If no candidate received more than the required threshold of first choice votes, the ranked choice process kicks in. The candidate who received the lowest number of votes is eliminated, along with any candidates who have no mathematical possibility of winning. Their votes are reallocated based on the second-choice votes on those ballots. If that process leaves one candidate with more than the required threshold of votes, that candidate is declared the winner." B is eliminated, as are A and E for "mathematical impossibility". Votes for B, A, and E, are "reallocated" to the second choice, D.
You did not vote for D, your votes for A and B were "reallocated".
If I understand it. It’s pretty cockamamie.
This general idea might not be as bizarre as it at first seems. We often complain about how vote splitting among conservative candidates allows a RINO to win Republican presidential primaries.
A simpler version of this might improve those outcomes. If people voted for a first and second choice, and no one received 50%+ of the first choice votes, the second choice votes from all other candidates could be applied to the two receiving the most first place votes to determine the winner.
That should give the about the same result as a runoff, and would reflect the will of the voters much better in a Republican primary that had say, four conservative and two RINO candidates.
I don’t think you are understanding the process correctly. In your example, first B would be eliminated. That wouldn’t affect your vote since you chose A as your first choice. In the next step if A was now left with the lowest votes (first choice A votes and voters who chose B as their first choice and A as their second) then A would be eliminated. Now both of your first two choices are eliminated so your third choice C would now be added to C’s vote total.
I like this voting scheme. It is essentially a multiple ballot process, but you only have to vote once. If applied at the federal level, it would break the two party monopoly. For instance Libertarians could vote their conscience with their first choice, but then use their second choice on the R candidate and thus not be throwing their vote away provided the R candidate wasn’t a full blown RINO.
The problem with ranked-choice voting is that I vote for who I want to win, not for who I want to be second and third and fourth.
If my vote is thrown out because of that, I’m disenfranchised. That can’t be legal.
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