On September 5, the California Senate passed AB 1227. It lets Santa Clara County, the most populous county in northern California, use ranked choice voting for elections for its own officers. However, the bill is still not through the legislature, because the versions passed by the Assembly and State Senate are not identical. The bill will go to a conference committee.
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Only UBI can solve this problem!
UBI = to each according to their needs, half of the Marxist credo.
Universal compulsory public service = from each according to their abilities, which is the other half.
Combine the two, and voila – full blown Marxism. Who said progressivism is Marxism on the installment plan? Much like Murphy, that guy was an optimist.
I’m not any part Puerto Rican.
“On September 5, the California Senate passed AB 1227. It lets Santa Clara County, the most populous county in northern California, use ranked choice voting for elections for its own officers.”
That’s great news, thanks! Plurality voting is a terrible handicap to alternative parties. More jurisdictions need to move to better and more modern electoral systems like RCV.
RCV confuses voters and helps commies cheat their way to more wins.
RCV is as simple as 1-2-3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq7N2hmX9FI
Say that all you want. It still confuses voters. And makes it easier to cheat. Which helps elect commies.
The way to cheat in plurality is to nominate somebody very similar to your opponent (or secretly support a candidate already in the race that is similar). When voters cannot rank choices, this means your opponent’s support is split in half. This works regardless of whether you are on the left or on the right. A Democratic candidate can support a right-leaning Libertarian to peel off support from the Republican.
It is for this reason that both parties strongly dissuade anybody from voting for alternative parties, calling it “throwing your vote away.” A ranked ballot fixed this, making it safe for you to vote your conscience and support whomever you like first while still voicing a preference between the two major parties with your 2nd or later pick.
This is also why both major parties like the current electoral system. It blocks competition.
For anyone who still thinks ranking candidates is too complicated, please consider Approval Voting which has similar benefits as RCV but is much simpler. Here’s how it works:
Everybody votes for as many or as few candidates as they like, and the one who wins the most votes wins.
Simple as that! It’s currently used in Fargo, ND with St. Louis, MO using a variant with a runoff (which I think is unnecessary). Much like RCV, it lets voters to support both their true favorite and their backup without fear for spoiling the race in favor of the major candidate they hate most.