As of the close of business on Wednesday, August 8, the Washington state election returns from the August 7 primary show that two Democrats will be the only candidates for U.S. House in the Second District.
Although twice before, no Republican has appeared in the general election ballot in the Seventh District (Seattle), the Second District is somewhat more Republican than the Seventh District. It includes Everett and Bellingham, to the north of Seattle.
The tally is very close and this won’t be certain until all the votes are counted.
THE TOP 2 INFECTION GETS WORSE AND WORSE.
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NO PRIMARIES.
PR AND APPV
The phenomena known as the “split vote problem”, is very common in all plurality elections and can be resolved by ranked choice voting (RCV) where voters must rank choices beginning with the number one.
Unfortunately, because RCV in single-winner districts will guarantee a one-party system as the RCV in SF, Oakland, Maine and other places now show where adopted, RCV is not worthy of replacing plurality elections.
Because random wins by 2nd or 3rd largest voting blocks is more acceptable than 100% guaranteed wins by one group.
Are you interested in a perfect voting system that guarantees the lowest thresholds possible which is also a mathematically unifying phenomena known as pure proportional representation (PPR)?
The United Coalition has been using parliamentary procedures under PPR for more than twenty-three consecutive years and PPR works best.
http://www.international-parliament.org/ucc.html
To clarify, pure proportional representation (PPR) uses ranked choice voting (RCV=1,2 3,4,etc.), it is required, but by coincidence we have prohibited all single-winner districts for all names and decision-items, and single-winners are not a team nor do the single-winner elections nurture team psychology.
The United Coalition prohibits all single-winner elections.
President/Vice President, Chair/Vice Chair, Gov/Lt Gov, are all two-member districts which we allow.
Only RCV and STV in multiple-winner at-large districts, the more choices the better, will give us pure proportional representation (PPR)
No single-winner district is allowable. No exceptions to the rule, in order to attain PPR.
No other voting system but RCV in multiple winner districts of two or more, can guarantee team psychology, equal treatment fairness, and mathematical unity.
No exceptions.
The following web page hosts information about voting systems and we have 23 years of experience counting paper ballots correctly while using PPR – the Hagenbach -Bischoff method, ranked choice voting in multiple winner districts only.
http://www.usparliament.org/stv.php
ANY 100 percent certain stuff that PPR in the current USA/State regimes will ***guarantee*** team psychology, equal treatment fairness, and mathematical unity with/between the communist Donkeys and fascist Elephants ???
— to do whatever — more or less STATISM ???
Very good luck in getting 2 Prezs, 2 Govs, 2 mayors stuff.
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PR and AppV
Worth watching this one. The Libertarian candidate in the 2nd has taken a very narrow lead for second now.
The Republican has dropped to 5th place. He shouldn’t have changed his name.
The second candidate is different in almost every county:
San Juan: Independent
Skagit and Island: Republican
Snohomish: Democratic
Whatcom: Green
Overall: Libertarian
The results may fluctuate based on county and reporting schedules of county election officials. Washington state should regulate this more closely – it leads to speculation about misfeasance and malfeasance.