Tennessee Bill Advances, Would Block Local Governments from Using Ranked Choice Voting for their Own Elections

On February 8, Tennessee bills to ban local governments from using ranked choice voting passed in committees in both houses. They are SB 1820 and HB 1868. They may receive floor votes on February 14.


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Tennessee Bill Advances, Would Block Local Governments from Using Ranked Choice Voting for their Own Elections — 10 Comments

  1. The damage done by FairVote and the SF Willie Brown regimes, will take a very long time to get around.

    Semi-proportional without ranked choice voting is far better than what those at FairVote and the Willie Brown SF Democratic Party brought us since 1992 when pure proportional representation was rebuffed by them and then the Libertarian Party too.

  2. The owner of BAN doesn’t know or care that FairVote brought one-party dictatorship male-dominated single winner election districts using RCV. Ted Browne crippled the CA LP and now he’s doing that from Austin TX.

    LNC = 82% straight white male names only

    Source: archives.gov

  3. @WZ,

    Cities are administrative bodies. They have no sovereignty of their own. At best the state legislature might give them a menu of options.

  4. @JR:

    While it is true that municipalities are creatures of the state legislature, an enlightened legislature would grant each municipality as much self-governance that can be tolerated without diminishing anyone’s rights.

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