This Portland Press-Herald story explains that the Maine ranked-choice voting is still law, given that the bill to repeal it failed. Thanks to Rob Richie for the link.
This Portland Press-Herald story explains that the Maine ranked-choice voting is still law, given that the bill to repeal it failed. Thanks to Rob Richie for the link.
Ranked choice voting in single-winner districts as promoted in Maine by Rob Richie, FairVote and other misguided activists is a disaster of great magnitude.
This will effectively entrench the status quo because only candidates garnering more than 50% will ever win in every district. It isn’t a two-party system, it is a one-party system, and this sort of nonsense has been promoted across the USA by simpleton do-gooders who have nothing better to do than go backwards in voting reform progress.
Are you interested in pure proportional representation (PR)? The United Coalition has been using PR correctly for more than 23 consecutive years and it works fine.
http://international-parliament.org/ucc.html
Says the guy that’s delusional enough to think he run a “global parliament”.
Ogle, Ranked Choice isn’t perfect, and it’s not proportional representation which is something I support as well, but it’s still a huge step in the right direction that will get rid of the spoiler theory in our country. And without the spoiler theory to fall back on, the two ruling parties will have to campaign on substance, which will result in either their becoming more decent and competent, or their defeat to parties like the Greens and the Libertarians as voters realize that by ranking their choice, and if their first choice places last having their choice’s votes go to their next choice instead of having no impact at all, they are no longer “forced” to vote Democrat or Republican.