I'm noticing a certain pattern that is not at all surprising.
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2024
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Looks like the bible belt hates freedom once again.
The given reason is that the voters are too dumb to understand how rcv works. That is not a coincidence.
As someone that lives down here, they're not entirely wrong...
Yeah, tell me about it! Kansas is such an ass about ranked choice as they know it would lead to more Republican losses. I long for the day, as those fascists need to go.
I was surprised to see how many states had affirmative bans.
That's for good reason - apparently there's been a coordinated push and many of these states have passed these this year. It's being done on the flimsiest of reasons, quietly, in states where the GOP majority legislatures are actively rewriting the rules of elections to favor them.
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/05/nx-s1-4969563/ranked-choice-voting-bans
Brown and other critics of ranked choice voting contend the system is confusing, and he said there are numerous instances in which voters didn’t end up ranking their choices.
“Proponents of rank choice voting claim for it to be a modern solution to electoral dilemmas or lack of confidence in our system of elections,” Brown said. “But the more I looked into it, the more I realized that the evidence and experience had illuminated a starkly different reality.”
Many conservative lawmakers have pushed back against the voting method — and other experts have also warned about “treating it as a one-size-fits all solution.”
If Missourians approve the ranked choice voting ban, the state will join Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Kentucky in barring the voting system this year. Alaska, where voters approved ranked choice voting in 2020, could see the practice repealed.
Meanwhile in other states, including Nevada and Oregon, voters will decide whether to adopt ranked choice voting later this year.
Lets go Nevada!
there are numerous instances in which voters didn’t end up ranking their choices
That's such a silly argument too. A good RCV system should allow apathetic voters to put an X beside their favourite candidate and call it a day.
Oregon has state wide ranked choice voting on the ballot this year.
We've had local RCV but only for select elections.
They really need to simplify the ballots a bit more to make them usable for mainstream use, especially for those with poor eyesight, cognitive issues, or language barriers.
I'm in a blue state and we don't have ranked choice voting. Marking the entire state blue because it's available in a few districts for local elections is misleading at best, and disingenuous & deceitful at worst.
Somebody didn’t read the map legend.