Missouri joins other red states in trying to stamp out ranked choice voting
npr.org
ST. LOUIS — Five states have banned ranked choice voting in the last two months, bringing the total number of Republican-leaning states now prohibiting the voting method to 10.
Missouri could soon join them.
If approved by voters, a GOP-backed measure set for the state ballot this fall would amend Missouri’s constitution to ban ranked choice voting.
Which was a surprise to all the slaves.
Once again Republicans misunderstand/misrepresent history to suit their own needs. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_man,_one_vote
In short, none of this is meant to say that a person can't express more granular support in an election, so long as it doesn't give certain citizens greater influence than others. A ranked ballot is still "one vote" per race, in IRV at least, so my vote doesn't mean any more than yours.
It doesn't even make sense. Everyone is still voting once. Or an I missing something? I apologize, i didn't read the article.
They're intentionally misrepresenting what RCV is and how it works, playing on their base's fear of voter fraud (which itself is code for Hispanic people voting.)
You're not missing anything, it is deliberate misrepresentation of what one person's right to vote is.
And we really don't have one person, one vote, and this is a fix for that. Most political seats in the US are not competitive because one party dominates, so some people's votes (in swing districts) matter much more than others. RCV allows previously non-competitive one-party races to become competitive, so we can actually have everyone's votes matter more equally.
Republicans are banning RCV faster than Democrats are pushing for it (which is easy because almost no democrats and no on influential to the party is actively pushing RCV). Probably because RCV hurts Democrats too, but either way at this rate if the time ever comes for a national discourse on a national RCV the red states will already be propagandized to disregard facts and hate RCV. The Democrats are not your solution to RCV, once again they're the party of 'too little to late' incarnate. Go vote for them sure, but stop acting like they're pro RCV and will advocate for a solution that takes power away from them because they aren't and they won't.
From Time.com
Pretty straightforward to me. But grandma gets confused, so we can't possibly implement it.
/s because it'll probably be needed
That is literally the problem. People resistant to change (willfully or not) don't want RCV.
No /s required.
Where I live we have RCV for some local government stuff but central government voting is MMP, which works quite well (except in the opinion of our conservatives). TL;DR: you vote for a candidate and also for a party. The party vote essentially sets how many seats each party gets in parliament, the candidate vote is for who represents your electorate.
If conservatives are trying to ban something, then it's probably a good thing they were banning. Ranked voting should be more of a thing.
Copilot and Gemini both refuse to answer a question asking for general information about this ballot measure.
Isn't copilot for code? Why ask it about politics?
Github Copilot and Microsoft Copilot are different things. Dumb, I know.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
If approved by voters, a GOP-backed measure set for the state ballot this fall would amend Missouri’s constitution to ban ranked choice voting.
“We believe in the one person, one vote system of elections that our country was founded upon,” Missouri state Sen. Ben Brown, the ballot measure’s sponsor, said in an interview.
In the 2022 election cycle, a group of Republicans and Democrats unsuccessfully sought to advance a ranked choice voting proposal in Missouri.
“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.
Democratic state Rep. Eric Woods called Brown’s proposal “just wholly unnecessary.” Backers of the 2022 initiative contended that ranked choice voting provides incentives for candidates to reach out to a more ideologically diverse set of voters — and, in turn, govern in a more moderate and collaborative way.
Brown said that while there aren’t any examples now of municipalities in Missouri that allow noncitizens to vote in local elections, the provision would guarantee that doesn’t happen in the future.
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From a KBIA article:
Doesn't seem very unusual unless that's trying to say runoff elections are no longer a thing (most votes doesn't mean majority).
Imagine a primary election with 5 candidates, 2 from Party A, 2 from Party B, and 1 from Party C, and these are the results of the primary:
Where I live, those results would mean that Candidate 1 and Candidate 2 move on to the general election, while the others are eliminated. To me, it sounds like you would instead see Candidate 1, Candidate 3, and maybe Candidate 5 move on to the general election.