What is confusing about, " pick your favorite, pick your second favorite"? You think if you asked them the same question about ice cream, they would be confused? Also, you don't HAVE to pick more than one. My understanding is that if you vote for an eliminated candidate, then your 2nd choice will be used on the next round. But they don't even need to know that to pick their favorite ice cream. It seems good for democracy? Someone let me know why it isn't.
Both sides are scared to death to lose power. It's a nice little rig they have. They more or less choose your options and you vote for one.
Ranked choice makes it FAR easier for an independent to make it in and dismantle the rest of their two-party shenanigans.
It's not confusing. It could let in a third party, they don't like that.
It's not confusing at all and everyone knows it. This is just the narrative they choose when trying to deny people the opportunity to uproot their cushy little scam. You'll notice that they're not campaigning to get people to vote against implementing this system, they're trying to stop people from getting to choose in the first place.
Holy shit, this makes sense to me. I'm in a historically red state and our RCV is massively disliked by the Trumpers. They also lost the last election. If the incumbent DC voters see RCV as a reason they would lose their current candidates, they would say the same shit. And they are.
Also, you don't HAVE to pick more than one.
In my experience that’s where people can get confused. We switched to ranked choice voting in university student government elections and that idea was not well-explained for the first election. We eventually got the hang of it though.
Still a bit surprised that it’s the Democrats objecting to this one. It might be a function of them having a near stranglehold on local DC government, and not necessarily indicative of how they’d react in more competitive states.
Yes exactly. Whichever party has a stranglehold in a given state/county/whatever will object because ranked choice voting has the potential to allow previously marginal (or zero chance) candidates to be elected.
Democrats are not inherently more fair-minded than conservatives. Both parties' (all parties, actually) first priority is to maintain power. Everything else is secondary to that.
What is confusing about, " pick your favorite, pick your second favorite"? You think if you asked them the same question about ice cream, they would be confused? Also, you don't HAVE to pick more than one. My understanding is that if you vote for an eliminated candidate, then your 2nd choice will be used on the next round. But they don't even need to know that to pick their favorite ice cream. It seems good for democracy? Someone let me know why it isn't.
Both sides are scared to death to lose power. It's a nice little rig they have. They more or less choose your options and you vote for one.
Ranked choice makes it FAR easier for an independent to make it in and dismantle the rest of their two-party shenanigans.
It's not confusing. It could let in a third party, they don't like that.
It's not confusing at all and everyone knows it. This is just the narrative they choose when trying to deny people the opportunity to uproot their cushy little scam. You'll notice that they're not campaigning to get people to vote against implementing this system, they're trying to stop people from getting to choose in the first place.
Holy shit, this makes sense to me. I'm in a historically red state and our RCV is massively disliked by the Trumpers. They also lost the last election. If the incumbent DC voters see RCV as a reason they would lose their current candidates, they would say the same shit. And they are.
In my experience that’s where people can get confused. We switched to ranked choice voting in university student government elections and that idea was not well-explained for the first election. We eventually got the hang of it though.
Still a bit surprised that it’s the Democrats objecting to this one. It might be a function of them having a near stranglehold on local DC government, and not necessarily indicative of how they’d react in more competitive states.
Yes exactly. Whichever party has a stranglehold in a given state/county/whatever will object because ranked choice voting has the potential to allow previously marginal (or zero chance) candidates to be elected.
Democrats are not inherently more fair-minded than conservatives. Both parties' (all parties, actually) first priority is to maintain power. Everything else is secondary to that.