Independent Voter News Carries Mike Feinstein’s Praise for Ranked Choice Voting Combined with Praise for Political Party Rights to Nominate

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The Independent Voters News has this opinion piece by Green Party activist Mike Feinstein of California. It praises Maine’s use of ranked choice voting, and criticizes Alaska’s new ranked choice voting. The difference is that in Maine, parties continue to have their own nominees, whereas in Alaska, parties have lost the ability to have nominees. It is good that IVN carried this piece, because in the past IVN has been supportive of eliminating party nominees.

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Independent Voter News Carries Mike Feinstein’s Praise for Ranked Choice Voting Combined with Praise for Political Party Rights to Nominate — 10 Comments

  1. NOOO primaries

    ONE election Day

    EQUAL nom pets

    PR and APPV – pending Condorcet = RCV done right.

  5. State/local morons too stupid / INCOMPETENT / CORRUPT to run 100 PLUS test ballots MORE THAN ONCE after ANY change to each VOTE counting machine ???

  6. The new One Party allows voters the liberty to register as they wish, to proclaim One Party, and with 538 seats there are 538 posdible party/category names (or independent).

    The ranked choice voting (RCV) in single-winner election districts in both Alaska and Maine are no good because RCV in single-winner election districts is a one-party system where only the biggest wins 100% of the time with no exceptions.

    The United Coalition USA has been bringing the correct math for pure proportional representation since 1992 when the Environmentalist, Green, all parties and independents first stated collaborating.

    Now we are bringing everyone together with the new four-Caucus system (not the one-Caucus system used in 2019) to the Libertarian Party of Los Angeles County in June of 2021.

    All men, bring female names, try to collaborate with the new winning strategy our opposite gender ahead of our own and consecutively ranked alternating genders thereafter with voluntary opt-in. Bring voting power to female Electors by using the Droop Quota (not approval voting system).

    Only one way and no other for the three-party system to Prez and VP and that’s limited voting (Droop or Hare Quotas) using ranked choice voting.

  7. Feinstein appears to be duped by the system used in Maine. It is quite difficult for a Green or Libertarian to even qualify for the primary, because petitions must be signed by party members. Voters won’t register with such a party since it restricts them to voting in a primary where nominations are never contested, and often non-existent.

    And of course Maine does not use RCV for the general election for the legislature or governor.

  8. The Maine rules on how a member of a small qualified party gets on his or her own primary ballot are being challenged in U.S. District Court.

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