The Democrats will oppose this bill because RCV enables them to cheat the system
Hamadeh and Rep. Nick Begich, R-Alaska, recently introduced the Preventing Ranked Choice Corruption Act that would amend the Help America Vote Act to ban ranked-choice voting.
The bill pairs Begich, whose state uses ranked-choice voting, with Hamadeh, whose state has chronically dealt with issues of election integrity, and voter trust in ballot counting.
“Ranked-choice voting destroys ‘one person, one vote’ in our country and some other states have dabbled in it, and it’s been disastrous,” Hamadeh said on the John Solomon Reports podcast. “We’ve seen it in Alaska. We see it in Maine. We see this in some municipalities as well.”
Democratic National Committee’s financial situation has grown so bleak that top officials have discussed whether they might need to borrow money this year to keep paying the bills.
Six people briefed on the party’s fund-raising, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss its finances frankly, said big donors — who are an essential part of the party’s funding — had been very slow to give to the party this year as Mr. Martin solicits contributions. His commitment to state parties, which amounts to $1 million in monthly spending, has further strained the finances.
Sounds like how they run the country too, but the DNC doesn’t have a printing press.
the party’s total cash reserves shrank by $4 million from January through April, according to the most recent federal records, while the Republican National Committee’s coffers swelled by roughly $29 million.
“People invested more money than they ever had before, they dug deeper than they ever had, and they are quite frustrated by the result,” Mr. Martin said of big donors.
Then you must eliminate the entire primary system as well, for the same reason. All ranked choice does is combine the primary concept with the general election on one ballot.
That makes no sense at all. In the ordinary system of a primary and then general election, people get a single vote in the primary of their party preference. Then they get a single vote in the general election. How is this in any way equivalent to a crazy system where you have to vote as many times as there are candidates?
I’ve noted many times before and you have never answered how ranked choice voting distorts election systems. It leads to the selection of candidates that are far to the left of the electorate. From the recalled elections in already left San Francisco area districts to Murkowsku in Alaska, this happens over and over. That is the reason that the left pours millions of dollars to try to get RCV adopted.
Despite all this money, more and more sane electoral districts are banning RCV. The Democrats will filibuster the bill that I mentioned on RCV but more and more states are banning it.
No, they get two votes - one in the primary, and another in the general. If their chosen candidate in the primary doesnt get enough votes to proceed, they get a second vote for a different candidate that did proceed. Exactly like with ranked choice. Alot of places have run-off elections too, if no one received the necessary votes for victory - effectively round 3 of ranked choice.
Because it doesnt. What you call “distortion” occurs in both voting systems. The traditional system (with primary) just uses the first and last steps of ranked choice, and prevents support from consolidating behind a minor candidate. It decides the two best candidates, then forces everyone to vote for one of them. Ranked choice allows voters to support multiple minor candidates without throwing away their vote, before having to shift to the designated populist candidate.
Ranked choice forces a candidate to win with 50%. The only difference with the traditional system is that is allows support to remain split and a third candidate to backdoor their way to a minority victory. The only reason that it “leads to the selection of candidates that are far left of the electorate” is because those voters think they’re farther left than they really are. The far left candidate only wins because a majority of voters decided they’re a better choice than the other options. That isnt distortion, that’s preventing distortion.
Endorsed by AOC and Bernie? How can anyone resist. RCV is working exactly like it is supposed to – the most popular person will win. If there were primaries instead, the same person would win the primary before the general.
City Journal is a conservative propaganda machine, so take everything with a grain of slant.
From far left NBC. The left loves RCV because it allows them to steal elections
NBC Liberal upstart pro-Hamas communist
While preliminary returns will be released after the polls close at 9 p.m. Tuesday, a winner might not emerge for a week because of the city’s ranked choice voting system, which allows voters to list up to five candidates in order of preference. If a candidate is the first choice of a majority of voters, they win outright. If no candidate reaches that threshold, the tabulation of the rankings wouldn’t begin until July 1.
I haven’t read what Cuomo or Mamdani are offering voters, but can guess Mamdani’s plans will cost mucho dinero. Anybody here knows what will be the source of that money?
That’s my one objection with the use of ranked choice. It’s being grafted into individual aspects of the traditional voting schedule, instead of replacing the traditional schedule. RCV should be THE election in it’s entirety, eliminating all the traditional steps. When using RCV, there shouldnt be a primary.
If a majority of people prefer this Mamdani over Cuomo, then how does Mamdani winning equate to stealing the election? It seems like you want to fracture the support against Cuomo so that Cuomo can steal the election despite a majority of voters opposing him…
Yeah, the usual Evil Rich and Evil Corporations, both of which are so rich that they have some of the money you need for $60m trans outreach programs, as well as vastly more costly rent freezes, subsidized government run food stores, doubling the minimum wage, etc. free everything! Of course in the day and age of remote work, all of these Evil entities can and will leave NYC if they try half of what he proposes. Some coverage here -
I didn’t read any of the links you posted, because I’m almost certain that mayors cannot unilaterally raise taxes. He might be a socialist and he might have a bunch of socialist proposals, but that doesn’t mean any of them would or could be implemented.
Oh, in that case it’s totally fucked up and I agree with you. Filtering out candidates that happen to be less popular amongst voters registered with the same party screws up the whole point of RCV. It removes the guarantee that the most popular candidate is eventually elected. The most popular from a subset is not necessarily the most popular from the full set.
He’ll use his influence and political capital, after being elected, to force tax increases. It happened here in Portland, where there has been an exodus of high-income residents frustrated by the giveaways that are paid with taxes that target them specifically.
As true now as when it was written over a century ago, like most of Bierce and Mencken’s quotes. Meanwhile, here’s an update on the NYC mayor’s Democratic primary, with “good and hard” in the lead -
What’s the matter, New York? Haven’t you heard that California takes a full month to count its ballots? Why are you rushing things and only taking one week?
Mamdani and Lander [3rd place candidate] formally co-endorsed one another as a strategy to leverage the ranked-choice primary — even appearing together on The Late Show with Stephen ColbertMonday night.
Good thing he won in the first round (though technically he hasn’t yet – Cuomo conceded), so we don’t have to listen to onenote’s unhinged ramblings about how this is just another example of RCV being no good.
The upside to this is how Mamdani will no longer be a State Assemblymember…
Also, this seems to open the door to Adams being reelected, or maybe even the Republican candidate winning. Cuomo would’ve easily been the favorite in the general election, this guy is only going to get votes from the same cult that voted for him in the primary.
But the vast majority of NYC voters are democrats so if the democrat populace wants him, he could very well win. Sure the primary voters are more partisan and maybe a few sane independents and republicans could vote for the other guy, but I think he’s got a serious chance.
Instead of being 50-50 between the two leading democrats in the odds markets, now it’s 75% for the Socialist nut, 20% Adams-loves-Turkish-Air (up a lot from before), and 5% for the field.
