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To: didjuneau who wrote (453834)	10/30/2025 8:13:18 PM
From: didjuneau	2 Recommendations Recommended By Thehammer Woody_Nickels Respond to of 456123

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. 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.

To: didjuneau who wrote (453834)	11/12/2025 8:31:21 AM
From: Thehammer	7 Recommendations Recommended By didjuneau kckip kech locogringo relewis and 2 more members Respond to of 456123

Ranked-choice voting is a deeply flawed system cleverly conceived to neutralize the votes of focused voters regardless of their political persuasion. The process is INTENTIONALLY flawed in that you cannot cast all ypur votes for a single candidate. I imagine that very few voters want to cast votes for second, third choices. However, IF you know that YOUR PARTY CANNoT win, it allows you to actually null out the favorite of the majority voters