Although rank voting has been met with much disapproval where it was implemented, defenders of rank voting claim it clearly represents every voter. Just what is rank voting? How would it affect my election? Do I have a choice?<\/p>\n
As <\/mark>part of RCV, voters cast ballots, in order of preference, for the candidate they prefer for office. Supporters claim RCV allows<\/p>\n For example, when fifteen individuals run for the same office, voters rank their preferred candidates according to their preference. RCV eliminates primary elections. Currently, our primary elections determine which individual from each party will run against other parties for the same position. In the general elections, each party runs against the others. In RCV, if one Democrat runs for a position against three Republicans, the Republican votes would be divided in thirds; the Democrat votes would not divide. Thus, as is often the case, the lower vote prospect wins the position as his votes are not diminished.<\/p>\n Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft is against ranked-choice voting. He stated,<\/p>\n Election results could delay vote counting by weeks. This could allow time for election interference.<\/p>\n While those defenders of RCV claim each voter will be represented, that is often not the case. If a state has twice as many conservative Bible believers as agnostics, yet three Bible believers are running for governor against one agnostic, the agnostic could win because the entirety of the votes is divided. Even after voting, the third-place winner could be the ultimate winner. Those in charge say that this is a confusing way to run elections.<\/p>\n Missouri lawmakers are trying to block the use of RCV, but it failed in the Senate.<\/p>\n Although rank choice voting was met with disapproval where implemented, defenders of rank voting claim it clearly represents every voter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[241,201,264,205,263],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24699"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27049,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24699\/revisions\/27049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} voters to rank candidates in order of preference [1]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/h4>\n
Effects of Elections<\/h3>\n
I think what\u2019s really happening is that you have people that have a political objective. They are unhappy with either who\u2019s being elected or what\u2019s passing. [2]<\/sup><\/a>So they\u2019re saying, \u2018let\u2019s change the rules to put a thumb down on the scale.’<\/h4>\n
Choice?<\/h3>\n
Notes:<\/h4>