HR 4464, the bill in the U.S. House to require use of ranked choice voting for all congressional primaries and elections, can now be read at the web page for Congress. Thanks to Thomas Jones for this news. See here.
If enacted, the bill would force California to alter its top-two system to either permit write-ins in the general election, or to allow the top three candidates to qualify for the November ballot.
NO extremist primaries needed or wanted.
Condorcet = RCV done right.
PR = end minority rule gerrymanders.
At least run-off primaries may be abolished ???
Bill may affect about 5-15 winners in gerrymander districts – to get a rigged *mandate* for extremist stuff.
How about a bill for EQUAL ballot access and PR ???
Who are you posing this question to?
CL
Could be to any body having ANY connection to a gerrymander oligarch in the USA Congress — or even to State gerrymander oligarchs in the States.
PR and AppV and TOTSOP
Reality Check –
Since SCOTUS has 9 super party HACKS — and the media is sooooo brain dead STUPID about Democracy math —
the last peacetime hope is the 18 States with voter petitions for State const amdts —
http://www.iandrinstitute.org/states.cfm
PR and AppV and TOTSOP
It keeps segregated partisan primaries.
The leftwing usual suspects are BIG into getting rigged majority *mandates* in gerrymander areas.
They are are too evil/corrupt/stupid to note gerrymander math —
1/2 votes x 1/2 gerrymander areas = 1/4 CONTROL
— with much, much. much worse primary math.
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PR and AppV and TOTSOP
In an RCV open primary, a Democrat voter could rank the Democrats 1, 2, 3, followed by the minor party and independent candidates, and then the Republicans from bad to worst. Other voters could follow similar patterns.
In a typical race, a Republican and Democrat would emerge, likely the same that would occur in a segregated partisan RCV primary. But a candidate with more cross-over appeal might advance.
If a district were very Democrat or Republican aligned then the two candidates that might emerge would be those with the most appeal to the overall electorate.
An Open Primary would likely reduce ballot access barriers since there would be no party qualification, and the insiders are unlikely to set barriers that they could not meet. And federal law could set reasonable access requirements (say 200 signatures).
The bill also misses an opportunity to set a uniform congressional primary date. This could be in early October.
Uniform election dates and ballots would permit operation of federal voting centers for overseas and out-of-state voters.