Every member of the Montgomery County, Maryland legislative delegation is sponsoring HB 624. This is a bill to let Montgomery County use ranked choice voting for its own officers. The bill has a hearing in the House Ways & Means Committee on February 19. The bill’s chances are very good, given that the entire county delegation supports it. Thanks to Michael Drucker for this news.
The RCV infection spreads —
like lemmings going over cliffs to their DOOOM.
See 34-33-32 example earlier post.
@DR,
Do voters rank candidates when Condorcet is used? Are votes tabulated in a manner that reflects voter preference?
The bill also permits use of approval voting.
Most county offices use segregated partisan primaries. It is not clear how that would be handled. Some offices are also multimember.
As said many times —
Condorcet is RCV done correctly.
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PR and AppV — pending Condorcet.
@DR,
Have you read the text of HB 624?
NO.
JR can post the link to HB 624
@DR,
http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0624f.pdf
See definition of Ranked Choice Voting. Doesn’t Condorcet comply?
p. 2 of bill.
“RANKED CHOICE VOTING”
MEANS A METHOD OF CASTING AND TABULATING VOTES IN WHICH VOTERS RANK CANDIDATES IN ORDER OF PREFERENCE AND VOTES ARE TABULATED IN A MANNER THAT REFLECTS VOTER PREFERENCE.
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Devil in details.
The hacks will super-likely copy SF RCV system in Regs. if bill passes.
Part of the RCV master plan by the usual suspects to have RED communist winners with their rigged majority *mandates*.
Again – see 34-33-32 RCV example.
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PR and Appv — pending REAL Condorcet
There is also HB 26 which would permit Baltimore City to adopt a Top 2 Open Primary using RCV.
I think the Democrats are thinking along the lines of maintaining segregated partisan primaries. In 2018, there were 33 Democrats running for 4 at-large positions on the county council.
Democrats in the primary averaged only 3.34 votes. The 4th advancing candidate only had 24.6% of the vote.
Yet again –
NO primaries.
PR and AppV – pending Condorcet.
What’s the size of the County delegation relative to the entire legislature?
https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/cph-2-22.pdf
2010 MD census
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approx M Co Pop x size of each house of MD Legis. / MD total Pop
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@CJ,
24 of 141 delegates. 8 of 47 senators.
The significance is not so much the size of the delegation, but the unanimity of it. The previous section says that application of the statutes should be uniform across the state. If they were to try to make it applicable statewide, they would likely run into opposition.
Maryland has 3 delegates for each senator. In more rural areas, the delegates are elected from subdistricts. In Montgomery, the 3 delegates are elected from the whole senate district. In Montgomery, this means the DDD defeat the RRR, exceptin districts when only one R bothered to file.
They are unlikely to be seeking more pluralistic results. In 2018, there were 33 candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for 4 seats on the common council. The 4th only had support of about 25% of the primary voters.
In the general election the 4 were elected by almost uniform votes by voters voting Donkey, Donkey, Donkey, Donkey.