The Easthampton, Massachusetts city council recently approved using ranked choice voting for city elections. Because it is a city charter change, the proposal next goes to the voters. If the voters pass it, then the state legislature must agree. If that happens, the system would be used in 2021. Thanks to Electionline for this news. See this story.
United Coalition USA
By James Ogle [One]
The issue with voting for “Unity Platform USA” is being addressed now and this illustrates a typical day for getting our election precedents in order.
See Elector nominee David Bond’s marked eballot, third from top, on the following web page:
https://www.allpartysystem.com/e-aps-6-marked.php
David Bond [Green] voted on 5/18/2019 on paper ballot as follows:
1 Bill of Rights for Voting Equality
2 Non-Aggression Principle (NAP)
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He voted on a paper ballot.
He also wrote in a third item but he didn’t rank the item with a numeral.
This set up a fine detail on precedents for nominated items for the Unity Platform USA to be considered a qualified item. The rules do not get this detailed other than a requirement that every item marked must use consecutive numerals, but with this particular incident, we can illustrate
On one hand, it doesn’t cause a spoiled eballot because he correctly ranked to items at #1 and #2.
But on the other hand, the third item “Universal Rent Control” was disqualified, because he didn’t ranked the item on his ballot with a numeral designated to left of the item on the marked paper ballot.
Now if you scroll to the bottom to all marked ballots you’ll see that *I* ranked his item, “Universal Rent Control”, on my ballot at #22 on my own rankings.
This vote by me is an example of how we all must get more involved to rank items that will be good simply for “ballot access”, for the top 26 items automatically qualify for the 2020 Unity Platform USA paper ballot.
Finally, I will post this same message to David Bond by email, and maybe we will be adding more people to this facebook page, by posting this URL. The Higher Education Ministry is demonstrating how we aim to elect Ministry Administrators and anyone wanting to learn more about pure proportional representation may feel free to join:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/higher.education.ministry/
RCV fatal defects
http://ballot-access.org/2019/05/19/two-utah-cities-will-use-ranked-choice-voting-in-municipal-elections-this-year/
*just enough* New Age math MORONS ??? — See Chernobyl 1986 — atomic physics morons
JO –
*LEGAL* votes and *ILLEGAL* votes —
Bush v Gore 2000
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still lots of election law moron govt hacks in Florida in 2019.
DR –
No way to ranked choice voting (RCV) in single-winner districts.
No way to all yes/no votes.
Only pure proportional representation, RCV in multiple winner districts, no other way is acceptable.
No to gerrymandering. Only at-large under pure proportional representation (PPR), and no exceptions.
The new pure proportional representation Electoral College will bring the three-party system to POTUS in the 2020, but only with paper ballots as proof marked, cast and counted transparently on Earth Day 2020.
Condorcet — RCV/IRV done correctly —
but also needs tiebreaker — AppV — 1st DR post above
Massachsetts permits home rule charters, but this is relative new for Ye Olde Newe Englande. It is often quicker and easier to get the legislature to pass a special law. A city government petitions the legislature to pass a new charter. This preserves a sense of local authority, since the legislature is restricted from passing locality-specific laws. It is normal procedure for the state law to require local voter approval.
The article is confusing on this procedure. Apparently, it is straightforward to get such a bill through the legislature. The local legislators can carry the bill. They can argue that it is “limited to Easthampton”, “the city council favors it”, “a local citizens commission favored it”, and “the voters will have to approve it”.
I didn”t find the actual proposed charter, but apparently it is limited to the single-member councillors and the mayor. Easthampton has five district councillors and four at-large. The city clerk apparently made an appeal not to apply it to the at-large elections since it was complicated to count.They may have the impression that since Ireland has been usung STV for a century, that it takes 100 years to do an STV count using paper ballots with marked numerals.
Computer counting of ballots required in any large election using number votes — ie *relative* votes.
Should NOT be any local laws = more bribes aka *DONATIONS* by special interest gangs.
I BELIEVE MASS HAS A *GENERAL* LAW HAVING OPTIONS FOR LOCAL REGIME STRUCTURES — ALSO BAD.
PR AND APPV AND TOT SEP OF POWERS — ALL REGIMES.