On December 20, North Carolina State Board of Elections finished its recount in the State Appeals Court race from last month. See this story. The election made history by being the first election in the United States for a statewide office, in a general election, to use Instant Runoff Voting.
48 days, and the winner won with 28% of the votes being assigned to them.
There’s your “instant” “majoritarian” method at work.
When elections have a recount, it is normal that the recount isn’t finished until mid-December. If the New York State Court of Appeals had ruled in favor of that Democratic request for a recount in a State Senate election, the recount would be going on right now.
In North Carolina, the judicial race winner received support from a majority of voters; the winner just wasn’t the first choice of all those voters. It’s no different from an old-fashioned two-round run-off in that regard.
NONPARTISAN Approval Voting for all elected executive officers and all judges.
Vote for 1 or more, highest win — those with the MOST *approval* — acceptability.
Time to count or recount — about 1 day.
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IRV = THE method to elect Left/Right extremists when the Middle is divided
34 L–M–R
33 R–M–L
16 M–L–R
16 M–R–L
99
IRV – M loses. 50 L beats 49 R — let a Civil War begin.
Gee a mere 99 of 99 votes for M in 1st and 2nd place — regardless of ALL IRV FANATICS for single offices.
Make a copy and send it to the IRV math MORONS in the NC regime.
How much extra $$$ to do the NC IRV recount — compared to any regular statewide recount ???
Stimulates the election economy at least.
#2 According to the North Carolina Board of Elections, 2,700,383 voters participated in the November election.
According to the North Carolina Board of Elections, 543,980 voted for Doug McCullough. That is 20.1% of voters. 20.1% is not a majority.
The recount was conducted in a week. It was a machine count, not a hand to eye tally. Only votes for Thigpen and McCullough were reported. About 800,000 voters didn’t mark a ballot for either of the two so those voters had no say in the “runoff”.
The biggest delay was due to the state insisting that all first choice votes, all ballots, be canvassed and the first round audited.
The state changed the tallying process in the middle of voting, after voting had already started (we have 2 1/2 weeks of early voting).
If this isn’t repealed and if it happens again, it will still take at least 1-2 months to get the results, because NC isn’t going to look at 2nd and 3rd choice votes until the 1st choice votes (provisional included) are all tallied and audited.
NC is one of a few states that conducts post election manual audits.
Voters were woefully informed, especially in the Democratic party. Since this was a non partisan contest, parties couldn’t endorse a slate. Some activists sent out inaccurate voter guides telling people to rank Thigpen 1st and 3rd!. Others said “bullet vote”.
On the other hand, Republicans were much more organized and told the voters to rank 3 different republican candidates.
Less than 4 cents per household was spent on voter education.
This contest couldn’t be protected by the voting vendor’s bond since uncertified software was used. Imagine copying and pasting, cutting and erasing vote data onto an excel spreadsheet, for hundreds of thousands of votes? What could possibly go wrong? Really. (Sarcasm)
This election was a crap shoot.
# 5 Thus – one more EVIL insane/corrupt minority rule regime — in the last 6,000 plus years.
What percentage of the voters had LEGAL IRV votes — i.e. did NOT screw up the marking of the ballots ???