This story about Maine’s bill for ranked choice voting in presidential primaries says that if the bill becomes law, it won’t be easy to combine ranked choice voting with the national Democratic Party rules on apportioning votes. The national rules say any presidential candidate who gets at least 15% in a Democratic primary is entitled to a proportionate number of delegates to the national convention. Squaring that with ranked choice voting is a head-scratcher.
Not complicated… Only transfer votes from people that get less than 15%. If that causes somebody that had above 15% on the first round to drop below 15%, transfer theirs too. You can have a proportionally allocated system using Instant Run-off. You effectively treat people over 15% as single non-transferable, and people under 15% as Instant Run-off.
Another option is Single Transferable… although that would alter the allotment because it transfers votes using a threshold system so people that get over 15% would be brought down to 15% thereby capping the delegate outcome per candidate at 15% of the delegates.
Will the Aiden math get past the now armies of Donkey lawyers at Donkey National Conventions ???
Did SCOTUS rule that Party Hack National Convention Delegate Selection Rules [via 1 Amdt association stuff] prevail over mere State laws ???
Is the Maine math being brought up – like the IA caucus math to the DNC folks ???
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Abolish ALL the EVIL rotted mess.
NO extremist primaries, caucuses and conventions.
Uniform definition of Elector-Voter in ALL of USA – USA Citizen, 18 + years olde
PR and AppV and TOTSOP
Too bad they are lying about that. Remember when John Wolfe received 42% in Arkansas against Obama in 2012? They wouldn’t give him his delegates.
More Donkey ROT since 1932.
The 15 pct math rule shows that the Donkeys are OBVIOUSLY now personality cult gangs.
See the END of the Roman Republic in 120 BC – 27 BC —
esp the last Roman triumvirate — 3 killers [including J. Caesar] — down to 1 killer Augustus Caesar.
Donkeys NOW –
20 personality cults — down to 10 personality cults – trending down to 1 personality cult in 2020.
See recent RED personality cults – Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, etc, etc.
The math would be easier with approval voting.
DNC rules require that candidates who receive more than 15% be allocated delegates, and those that receive less than 15% receive no delegates.
The DNC also require state parties to publicly denounce any non-binding preferential polls.
The easiest way to avoid the mess is for the governor to veto the bill.