Maine Legislature Will Consider Ranked Choice Voting

During June, the Maine legislature will consider two bills concerning ranked choice voting. One will ask the voters if they wish to amend the state constitution to allow it. The other will repeal the law providing for ranked choice voting that the voters passed last year. See this story.


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Maine Legislature Will Consider Ranked Choice Voting — 10 Comments

  1. Ranked choice voting (RCV) in single-winner districts will never help third parties and independents, and it’s very sad to see this being argued back and forth because it is a big waste of time either way.

    Do you want to see pure proportional representation (PR)? A low and equal threshold for all?

    The 10th USA Parliament has been using pure proportional representation (PR) for more than 22 years and it works fine:

    http://www.usparliament.org

    Now we are candidates worldwide, working together for the good of the whole, under pure proportional representation:

    http://international-parliament.org/ucc.html

    Nobody has it as good as the United Coalition.

  2. James… You’re a fucking delusional human being. You really need to be in a mental hospital.

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    2017 candidate for Los Angles City Council Mark Herd [Libertarian] is very pleased that candidates for US Senate, Governor of California, Congress, State Senators and political party central committees are united with his Libertarian Party’s NAP (non-aggression principle) platform item which was elected to the world unity platform.

    Though censored by the mainstream media year after year, the United Coalition of Candidates (UCC) continues to attract rogue political candidates running against the stream of unity across all political spectrums.

    The United Coalition of Candidates is now able to accept new members everyday and to give the new members special custom attention for blending in as a worldwide unity phenomena sweeping the globe.

    The Senate Chamber is currently welcoming speakers on a daily basis, the virtual chamber is a source for free speech and refined parliamentary procedures under pure proportional representation.
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  4. is James Ogle the new ‘Demo Rep’ with his inaccurate and irrelavant rantings?

    Actually with RCV it is possible for a candidate who isn’t in the lead after the 1st count to win election – eg Mayor of Oakland CA in 2010.

  5. Absolutely not agreeing with Demo Rep’s promoting approval voting. Approval voting allows the majority to win a super-majority of the representations. I am only supporting pure proportional representation.

    IRV is not pure proportional representation and it’s is not proportional representation in an impure from. IRV is winner-takes-all and that’s a failed system. I have been correct ever since Cameron Spitzer, Jim Lindsay had me removed from citizens for proportional representation (CPR) in 1995 and I have been opposed to that group, the fairvote.org group, and anyone who advocates any sort of inferior, unfair, disproportional voting, which is not pure proportional representation, since 1992, and later in 1995, when the Environmentalist and Green Party US Presidential candidates united under pure PR.

    Google derived from my initials in 1997 because my group was huge and they picked up the action, saw us coming before anyone, Google attempted to usurp the unity and peace movement and that has led to civil wars around the globe. I was also working with Roseanne Barr, coaching her n PR, when the “Occupy 99%” read about my work, invited her to speak on day one with Occupy, and they adopted the 99% against 1% theme, which is contrary to the equation for 100 seats which I was coaching her.

    Pluralists love division, the love fighting and they cannot accept unity. You can always see pluralists by their opposition to free speech about pure proportional representation.

  6. Regarding the mayor of Oakland, just because ranking was used, does not make that a fair voting system. With one winner for mayor, no 2nd or 3rd-ranked interest group can win, because only the biggest will win. Without rankings, smaller groups can have random wins, because of the split vote problem.

    But under IRV in Oakland, the largest vote-getter is the only winner, and there will be no inclusion in the mayoral race. IRV insures that no 2nd-largest interest group will win and you have been hood-winked to think that a 2nd-biggest group won when the mayor won in Oakland.

  7. Unfortunately, no political party is able to work in unity with other political parties, because of the psychology nature of plurality elections. Only through pure proportional representation (PR), have candidates of multiple parties (and independents), been able to work together to get things done as a team.

    We have brought the concept before the Ds, Rs, Gs, Ls, P&Fs and AIPs and they have all reacted with censorship, vile behavior and unfair treatment. That is because of the nature of plurality voting which tends to reward the meanest of the top two political parties’ candidates, when they are in public “death-grip”. (I.e. “bad publicity is good publicity”)

    So they are fine with fighting, civil war and outrageous violence.

    Now there is a better way, good publicity is the best publicity, and that is only possible under pure proportional representation (PR).

    Under PR we regularly use cooperation, conciliation, incremental improvements, rewards of votes for the best team players, virtual civil conferencing, coalition building among diverse candidates, etc.

    It only works when an effort is made to use pure proportional representation and then to continue to use pure proportional representation, and there is no other way for unity.

    Nobody has it as good as the new United Coalition of Candidates:

    http://international-parliament.org/ucc.html

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