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Politics : A Real American President: Donald Trump
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To: Stock Puppy who wrote (444887)10/30/2025 12:06:22 AM
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Letter: Ranked choice voting is flawed adn.com

By Rick Garner
Published: October 18, 2025

Ranked-choice voting is a deeply flawed system cleverly conceived to neutralize the votes of focused voters regardless of their political persuasion.

It does this by giving voters multiple votes while simultaneously limiting how those votes may be cast.

Focused voters of any persuasion will only have one, maybe two, candidates who support their point of view. The remaining candidates will miss the mark to some extent or be in opposition to that voter’s wishes. A focused voter is thereby forced to vote for subpar candidates or to abandon their remaining votes entirely. Either option results in voter coercion or the voter being disenfranchised regarding their remaining votes.

RCV must either be abandoned entirely or modified so that any voter may cast their votes in any manner they wish, including casting all their votes for a single candidate.

RCV is not benign nor is it an improvement. It has been conceived to put a thumb on the scales in our voting process and thereby affect voting outcomes.

— Rick Garner, Anchorage


To: didjuneau who wrote (444884)2/15/2025 4:03:02 PM
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New York has ranked choice also.
Good luck getting that repealed. Who knows.

There is even an organization that sends mail and texts to try to convince people to register as Dems - so that they can vote in the primary, and after all …

I am one of those focused voters and this voting system takes away my vote completely after the first round since my choice never includes the Free Stuff people and they're like candy to get the less focused crowd to dilute the first choice to a non-winning plurality. Talk about being disenfranchised!

It's like they want Krusty the Clown to be elected.

"If no candidate wins a majority of first-preference votes, the candidate with the fewest first-preference votes is eliminated." ballotpedia.org

Yeah - and you can't keep your same choice on the next round. They never explain that very well.
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