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TEN municipalities in Utah just repealed #RankedChoiceVoting (RCV).
Utah is currently running a pilot program that allows cities to opt-in to using RCV. In 2021, 23 wanted to use RCV, and 21 did so. For the Nov 2023 elections, only 11 of those will use RCV.
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Utah is currently running a pilot program that allows cities to opt-in to using RCV. In 2021, 23 wanted to use RCV, and 21 did so. For the Nov 2023 elections, only 11 of those will use RCV.
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10 cities decided not to use RCV again:
Bluffdale
Cottonwood Heights
Draper
Elk Ridge
Moab
Newton
Nibley
River Heights
Sandy
Springville
Goshen and Riverton didn't have enough candidates to need RCV before and are now quitting the pilot. Kearns is the only new RCV city.
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Bluffdale
Cottonwood Heights
Draper
Elk Ridge
Moab
Newton
Nibley
River Heights
Sandy
Springville
Goshen and Riverton didn't have enough candidates to need RCV before and are now quitting the pilot. Kearns is the only new RCV city.
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These repeals are indicative of a trending backlash against Ranked Choice Voting, from voters to election officials. RCV is often sold as a simple, cheap upgrade to our current Choose One Voting that solves many of its ills. However...
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Choose-One voting has one thing going for it - It's transparent, so results are easy to tally and audit. This forms the foundation for a government of and by the people.
As we fight to upgrade our voting method we remain committed to voting methods that uphold that standard.
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As we fight to upgrade our voting method we remain committed to voting methods that uphold that standard.
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#StarVoting, #RankedRobin, and #ApprovalVoting can all be tallied with addition. Stacks of ballots can be tallied at the local level as they come in, and our current protocols for chain-of-custody, partial hand counts, or risk-limiting-audits can all continue as before.
In contrast, #RankedChoiceVoting, which we do not support, requires centralized tabulation and is fundamentally incompatible with many of our election security protocols due to the fact that many of the rankings voters put down are never counted.
After 11 failed attempts to elect a #SpeakerOfTheHouse, it's clear that a true majority winner does not exist. That said, a better voting method could end the stalemate and find a representative, majority preferred winner. Let's review 2 options: #RankedChoice and #STARVoting.
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A common claim about Ranked Choice Voting (#RCV) is that it always elects majority winners. This claim is objectively false. No voting method can guarantee a majority in an election with more than 2 candidates because a true majority may not always exist.
This is demonstrated clearly in the current #HouseSpeakerVote. With 3+ polarized factions, no faction has a true majority, and as we can see, the Republican factions are unwilling or unable to coalition around one candidate.
BREAKING NEWS: We have long taken a firm stance that RCV does not pass our minimum bar for fair, secure, and viable election reform - for a number of reasons - but when catastrophic fails like this happen, we are as dismayed as anyone. @sfchronicle bit.ly/rcv-botch
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RCV is uniquely complex and uniquely prone to both voter errors and counting errors like this one, discovered by a 3rd party long after the election results were certified in Alameda County, CA. This kind of catastrophic error undermines the voting reform movement in general.
RCV is tallied using an unnecessarily complex algorithm with dozens of counterintuitive details and potential tabulation pitfalls. It is completely different from #STARVoting, #Approval, and other systems that are counted (and audited) with basic addition like the current system.
This Twitter thread explains how the #evolution of even the primitive election #FPTF system still used in too many elections can be guided to produce a much more democratic election system, through the accumulation of simple changes.
➡ #Approval ➡ #Score ➡ #STAR ➡ #BRAMYIR
➡ #Approval ➡ #Score ➡ #STAR ➡ #BRAMYIR
#BRAMYIR offers the benefits of #ApprovalVoting, #ScoreVoting, & #RankedChoiceVoting, plus the benefit of a balanced ballot, while encouraging honest voting & discouraging attempts to game the system with dishonest strategic voting such as votes for the mere lesser of two evils.
It's easy to improve on the common single faceted first past the post voting system, and it's easy to make positive changes add up to positive evolution. #RankedChoiceVoting is an improvement, we can do better then that with the simple removal of a single voting restriction.
🔥 #BRAMYIR stands for Balanced Ranked Approval Maximum Yield Instant Runoff. It's a powerful and easy to use hybrid voting system which allows votes directly for or directly against any number of competing candidates. For more details, please continue reading… 🐦
#BRAMYIR offers the benefits of #ApprovalVoting, #ScoreVoting, & #RankedChoiceVoting, plus the benefit of a balanced ballot, while encouraging honest voting & discouraging attempts to game the system with dishonest strategic voting such as votes for the mere lesser of two evils.
#BRAMYIR is similar to #StarVoting in that it is calculated using scores rather than ranks and looks at all scores in the first round, but unlike #StarVoting this process is repeated with the remaining candidates for as many rounds as it takes.
