On January 30, Congressmember Bryan Steil (R-Wisconsin) introduced HR 7300. It would ban ranked choice voting in federal general elections. It has many other provisions as well, including a requirement that voters in federal elections must show photo ID in order to vote at the polls. For postal ballots, a photocopy of ID must be enclosed, although overseas military are exempt.
The bill has 24 co-sponsors, all Republicans.
The bill seems to be worded so as to prevent individuals for voting for a slate of presidential electors. It says, “Sec. 305. A State may not carry out a general election for federal office in the State using a voting system that permits a voter to vote for more than one candidate for the same office.” But in all fifty states, current law provides that a voter may cast a vote for multiple candidates for presidential elector. Even Maine and Nebraska allow all voters to vote for two at-large candidates for presidential elector.
The bill notably would ban ALL alternative voting systems for general federal elections, not just RCV. That is, it would ban approval voting, STAR voting, Condorcet voting, the Borda count and so on. It limits voters to a single indication of preference. For once, perhaps, the alternative voting methods commmunity could row in the same direction in opposing this billl
MINORITY RULE GERRYMANDER TYRANT HACK AT WORK-
PLURALITY/GERRYMANDER = PLUG — OF USA VOTERS — AS IN PLUG BULLETS OF KILLED INNOCENT
PLUG MATH 0001 –
1/2 OR LESS VOTES – PLURALITY X BARE MAJORITY OF RIGGED GERRYMANDER DISTS = 1/4 OR LESS CONTROL
SUPER-WORSE PRIMARY MATH
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NOOO PRIMARIES
PR- LEGIS
APPV-EXECS/JUDICS
TOTSOP
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Five-year-old Liam Ramos and his father released from Texas detention center
Boy and his father back in Minneapolis after being detained by ICE and held in immigration facility for more than a week
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What’s wrong with Ranked Choice Voting? So long as it is not attached to something like a Top 4 or Top 5 Primary I see nothing wrong with it.
Seems like the Republicans, in their haste to “own the libruls”, didn’t think their bill through enough (or perhaps they did?); if it were to pass, they’d be either making government more expensive (increased ballot size, lawsuits from people having their identities stolen via the photocopied IDs in postal ballots), or they’d be invalidating the Electoral College. The Republican Party pre-Trump would have thought both effects to be anathema, but that party seems dead aside from a couple of holdouts.
How can a ballot with a photo ID be a “secret ballot”?
@RW,
Presidential elector is a state office, not a federal office; and it is an appointive office rather than an elective office, no matter that appointments are often determined by markings on ballot papers. Even if Congress wanted to ban “voting” for slates of electors, or require voting for slates of electors, Congress has no authority to do so.
The overarching theme of the bill is to return to hand marked ballots voted in person at local polling places and counted at the end of voting. It would be quite difficult, if not impossible to do this with RCV.
Great bill that we desperately need to pass!
Leave it to Robert K Stock, trolling under his Joshua H. name to bash this bill.
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TYRANT TRUMP – MERE 5,300 TIMES IN EPSTEIN FILES
WHOLE REDACTION MESS
IF ALLEGATION IS PROBABLE CAUSE FALSE, THEN HOW COME NO FALSE CRIME REPORT PROSECUTION AGAINST ACCUSER ???
IF ALLEGATION IS PROBABLE CAUSE TRUE, THEN HOW COME NO CRIMINAL/CIVIL PROSECUTIONS OF ACCUSED ???
HOW MANY USELESS COPS / PROSECUTORS / GRAND JURIES ???
Congressmember? Really?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/minnesota-standoff-trump-administration-stokes-220000023.html
Minnesota standoff with Trump administration stokes fears of civil war
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ONCE AGAIN- A POWERMAD MONARCH [TYRANT TRUMP] WITH AN OLIGARCH GANG [MINORITY RULE] VS DEMOCRACY [MAJORITY RULE]
WILL RUSSIA/ RED CHINA INTERVENE IN ANY USA CIVIL WAR II ???
“Sec. 305. A State may not carry out a general election for federal office in the State using a voting system that permits a voter to vote for more than one candidate for the same office.”
That doesn’t really hit at Instant Run-Off (Single-member RCV) though. With Instant Run-Off you’re not voting for more than one candidate. You’re holding numerous run-off elections (each counting round is a separate election if no one received 50% of the vote or more), and collecting the necessary information from voters to carry out said run-offs all at one time (by having them number/rank their preferences), instead of having repeated run-off elections.
I agree with Joe. Pass it and sign it into law ASAP!
Andy, it makes voting and vote counting more complicated, which leads to more fraud. It’s also been said here that it gets communists elected. My parents fled communism in Russia and Moldova (then Moldavia), I don’t want to see it here.