U.S. District Court Rejects Attempt to Stop Counting Maine Ranked-Choice Second Round of Ballots

On November 15, U.S District Court Judge Lance E. Walker refused to enjoin the ongoing count of Maine ranked-choice ballots. Baber v Dunlap, 1:18cv-465. This is the case brought by the incumbent Republican congressman in the Second District, Bruce Poliquin. Judge Walker is a Trump appointee. Here is the 16-page order.


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U.S. District Court Rejects Attempt to Stop Counting Maine Ranked-Choice Second Round of Ballots — 3 Comments

  1. RCV/IRV FATAL Defects Apr 2018

    RCV/IRV ignores most of the data in a Place Votes Table.

    The *Middle* is divided – as usual.

    34 A-M-Z

    33 Z-M-A

    16 M-A-Z

    16 M-Z-A

    99


    With RCV/IRV, M loses. A beats Z 50-49.

    A = Stalin, M = Washington, Z = Hitler

    —————
    Place Votes Table

    — 1 — 2 — 3 — T

    A 34 – 16 – 49 – 99
    Z 33 – 16 – 50 – 99
    M 32 – 67 – 0 – 99
    T 99 – 99 – 99

    i.e. RCV/IRV will cause even more extremist winners due to rigged majority *mandate* stuff.

    M has a mere 99 of 99 votes in 1st and 2nd place.

    Also — symmetry — Z has 50 in last place — should lose. M then beats A 65-34.

    ————
    Head to Head (Condorcet) Math – from 1780s — repeat 1780s.
    
M beats A 65-34
    
M beats Z 66-33

    Condorcet is obviously correct by the math of having a 3rd choice beat each of 2 existing choices head to head.

    A > B

    C comes along.

    IF C > A and C > B, THEN C should be the winner.
    *******
    Condorcet math — ALL elections —
    legislative, executive, judicial.

    ALL combinations of —

    Test Winner(s) vs Test Loser — Test Other Losers

    Number ranked votes go from TOL to TW or TL.

    Would need computer voting to do all the combinations in any *larger* election.

    Also– vote YES or NO (default) on each choice for a tie breaker when a TW/TL does not win/lose in all combinations.

    For 2 or more exec/judic offices (e.g. 2 judges), the 2 or more top ranked number votes are used in the TW/TL/TOL math.

    Legislative body elections — the final Winners would have a Voting Power equal to their final votes (direct from voters plus indirect from Losers).
    —-
    Thus — Proportional Representation — legis and nonpartisan Approval Voting (YES/NO) exec-judic — pending Condorcet head to head math.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting

    Note – see “mathematics of voting and elections” in a Google search regarding 3 or more choices math.

    —–
    Too many math morons to count — esp lawyer and judge math morons.

    The *middle* in Maine is about 10 or less percent as in many States ???

  2. At least the Judge did NOT say that *plurality* is in the USA Const. —

    a genius observation.

  3. Thanks to Rob Richie, FairVote, the California Green Party bosses and Cameron Sputter, the state of Maine has implemented a one-party system by using ranked choice voting in single-winner districts.

    The United Coalition USA has been using parliamentary procedures under pure proportional representation (PPR) for more than twenty-three consecutive years and PPR works fine but Google and the Green and Libertarian Parties’ bosses didn’t want the delegates to know.

    Go Herd/Ogle [Libertarian/One] for President in 2020

    http://www.usparliament.org/google2020.php

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