Jungle Primaries & Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) Ballot Initiative: A Race to the Bottom - update (08/15/24)
Ranked Choice Voting Truth Bombs - from a Republican PC
A Republican Precinct Committeeman friend in a blue area of Ada County has been thinking about and fighting against Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) for a long time.
He came up with an excellent summary of Proposition 1 "for the masses," not the policy wonks. He hopes to influence the convincible middle to VOTE NO on this measure.
We edited and pretty-printed his work — with his permission and final review, of course — and added it to the articles linked below. Please share if you consider it worthy! (He did not ask for attribution.)
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Jungle Primaries & Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) Ballot Initiative: A Race to the Bottom
🔖Full article (short link): tinyurl.com/4m8rbbun
🔖Cliff’s Notes Version (short link): tinyurl.com/4m8rbbun
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What Proposition 1 Will Do
Two separate, drastic changes to our laws.
Was it honest not to tell you when you signed that petition?
→ NOT EVERY VOTE WILL COUNT!
18 pages of obfuscation. tinyurl.com/4m8rbbun?
Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) starts on page 16!
Your vote may not be counted AT ALL!
In other states, the highest RCV vote getter LOST the election — several times!
Is that fair?
→ PARTIES WOULD BE IRRELEVANT!
In a “Jungle Primary” anyone can identify as anything — party doesn’t matter!
→ COSTLY, CONFUSING & COMPLICATED!
> $40M for new machines and voter education.
Chaos in the counting house! Voter errors likely, some ballots not counted.
MUST be processed by computers.
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