Wisconsin State Senator Mark Miller (D-Monona) and Representative Mark Spreitzer (D-Beloit) are about to introduce a bill to use ranked choice voting for federal, state, and local office in the state, excluding recall elections. The bills don’t have numbers yet, but here is the text. They apply to president.
Richard:
Is Wisconsin one of the states that has joined the multi-state Compact to subvert the Electoral College? It could be quite interesting to see which total was used (the original vote count or the adjusted total) for Wisconsin’s votes to be counted in the National popular vote total to be used for the multi-state Compact.
Wisconsin has NPV bills introduced this session but they’re still in committee. With GOP majorities in both houses it’s not likely to go anywhere.
i hope it passes.
Ranked choice voting in single-winner districts like in SF, Oakland and Maine bring the mathematics of the one-party system.
The way for the three-party system or 539-party system is simply by calibrating under the Droop Quota.
Our team is planning for the future when every Congressional district under Article the First could elect Congressional candidates for every 50K voters using limited voting (also ranked choice voting in multiple winner districts).
Voting going on now, first stage of Electoral College 2020, paper ballot only:
http://www.allpartysystem.com/e-aps-13.pdf
It is absurd for anyone to say Maine has a one-party system. Maine is quite competitive between the Republican and Democratic Parties. It is the only New England state to have any Republican in either house of congress. In 2016 Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both got at least one electoral vote from Maine.
Richard, ranked choice voting in single-winner districts was only implemented recently in Maine from what little I know about the dates.
Obviously, it will take a few cycles to see the one-party system, but no 2nd biggest party will ever win under ranked choice voting in single-winner districts.
Look at SF, do you think Ds will ever let any R, L or G win a seat? No, under a one-party system in SF, all the Ds need to do is keep running large numbers of Ds and all others will always lose because there is no split-vote problem under RCV so only the biggest will always win.
The one biggest party that always will win is because ranked choice voting in single-winner districts will insure only the biggest always wins and there are no exceptions.
That’s a sure sign of the one-party system.
Limited voting means one vote in a multiple winner election district.
One vote, for eleven at-large seats in SF, while using ranked choice voting and the single transferable vote will bring pure proportional representation. That would be a twelve-party system, eleven seats, under pure proportional representation.
But SF uses single-winner election districts. One vote in single-winner election district is not limited voting.
SF uses the one-party system, one vote, in a single-winner election district. Since it is ranked choice voting that mitigates the split-vote problem and only the biggest always wins.
Must be limited voting to bring pure proportional representation.
Must be ranked choice voting, all at-large seats elected simultaneously in multiple-winner election districts to qualify for pure proportional representation.
See EARLIER RCV POSTINGS
34 EXTREMIST AA
33 EXTREMIST ZZ
32 MUDDLED MIDDLE
CONDORCET = RCV DONE CORRECTLY
— LIKE CALCULUS COMPARED TO 1+1=2
It’s too bad that they didn’t include recall in the bill. The experience of Fall River, MA in their effort to recall their mayor show that RCV is ideal for recall elections. Without RCV, the voters voted to recall and re-elect the mayor at the same time because there were four challengers to replace him.
IMO, no matter what kind of voting method you use in places like San Francisco or Oakland, one party will almost always come out on top.
With PR — even SF type places will get ***SOME*** divisions —
90 vs 100 PCT RED communist on specific issues.
WZ, in SF the Rs regularly attain around 25%, so a threshold of wrong 8% under PPR in SF might elect several Rs.
Even a L might have a chance. But no way under the one-party system now in SF, Oakland, Maine, (and ?).