You Should Know

As a Texan, it's a relief to finally not be included on one of these lists for once.

Does it also shock you that Iowa is on the short list to do the same?

https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1848744

For those non-USians reading this, the pattern is: states which tend to vote Republican and thus have majority Republican governance. So called "red states".

You’d think it would be democrats worried about another Bernie Sanders coming along.

What is it the republicans are worried about with RCV?

In Kansas it surprises me that Kelly signed it; I’d be more inclined to believe that the Republican supermajorities pushed it past a veto.

They just pulled that in the Ohio House this week. They have been calling it "One Person, One Vote" and are going to withhold state funds to any municipality that uses ranked choice voting. It passed our house 22-5 iirc

Missouri Amendment 7, Require Citizenship to Vote and Prohibit Ranked-Choice Voting Amendmen

well, to be fair, shitty electoral systems should be banned, like FPTP, because they aren't representative. what's happening here is sadly the opposite.

For the U.S., the decisive blow came with the Citizens United ruling, although it’s not unreasonable to suggest the refusal to punish Nixon during watergate signaled that the rule of law was merely a suggestion. That kicked off a whole cascade of political and legal maneuvering to get both the legislative and societal landscape into such a contortion that it would willingly hand away the entire nation to vulture-capitalists.

A better question would be "when was there ever been a true democracy?"

For me, there hasn't been. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't try. It means that we need to truly internalise that wealth and power will, if left unchecked, succeed in perverting it entirely. We need to be ever augmenting it, with that in mind, with a view to playing whack a mole with the interests of the 1% and keeping it working for the 99%.

I mean that won't work either. The rich and powerful will never allow us to simply vote away their ill beggoten wealth and power. However, at least people could say that they tried.

Not even one state that has banned it is run by Democrats.

It's almost like those in power make the laws that are used to elect those in power 🤔

In Colorado last year RCV was on the ballot as part of an initiative. It was shot down easily because both parties campaigned against it. Not sure what to do when the weight of all incumbents is thrown against something

Lol go to r/conservative and you'll see all those idiots having doublethink simultaneouly saying that they support term limits for congress and support for ranked-choice voting, yet continues to vote in conservatives that oppose the very policies they claim to support.

Its actually quite ridiculous. Republican legislators consistantly oppose raising the minimum wage or abortion, yet, the republican voters votes in favor of those policies, while simultaneously vote for the legislators that oppose them.

I'm just like... Why??? Why do y'all vote like this? 🤦‍♂️

I think we should just go the Swiss-route and do direct democracy; representatives don't even represent their constituents anymore.

It's an attempt to proactively prevent any progressive progress.

They don't want sub-divisions of the State (cities/towns) to implement RCV in their local elections. Probably to avoid the idea to spread. It like Democracy/Republicanism. When the French got rid of their monarchy, all the monarchs of nearby countries were afraid the sentinment would spread, same thing here.

Edit: spelling

The Ohio HoR just overwhelming voted to remove all state funding from any city that implements ranked choice voting. It threatens the parties in power, so they are both eager to stomp it out

The link gives some arguments. It's mostly stupid right wing claptrap.

Opponents of ranked-choice voting argue that it benefits voters with more time and information, leads to decreased voter confidence in elections, and disconnects voting from important issues and debates. Opponents of ranked-choice voting also argue that RCV winners do not necessarily represent the will of the voters.

It goes on to giving statements for those reasons from such respectable organizations as The Heritage Foundation, so do what you want with that.