On February 14, both houses of the Tennessee legislature passed SB 1820, which prevents local governments from using ranked choice voting for elections for their own officers. The vote was 74-19. All Republican representatives voted for the bill. In the House, among the 26 Democrats, 6 voted “yes”, one didn’t vote, and the other nineteen voted “no.” In the Senate the vote was 26-4.
TOTAL rot due to a combination of — Remedy
unequal ballot access – equal ballot access
anti-Democracy minority rule gerrymanders – PR
extremist plurality primary elections – abolish
extremist plurality general elections – abolish
party hack execs/judics – nonpartisan
SOP violations – TOTAL SOP
All they have to do now is ban opposing parties and it’ll be like Thailand!
Is az the real Demo Rep?
I’m kind of scared to click on Sukhimoff Psycho’s website. Is it SFW?
Those dirty rotten scoundrels.
As Chris Powell mentioned on a previous post, and I’m gonna repeat here: it appears the city of Memphis approved Ranked Choice Voting for its local elections but couldn’t use it yet due to a lawsuit. The case is still open but this new law will supersede it. And maybe some other municipalities were considering RCV. So that’s some context.
Well, why not try Approval Voting then? Vote for one or more candidates – highest score wins. It would be very hard to argue that Approval Voting is “confusing” or “complex”. Tennesseans probably already use something similar for school board elections or something. Maybe multi-member districts are still on the table? How about RCV for federal elections (check the state constitution)? This new law only prohibits it for local and statewide elections.
Has the governor signed this yet?