"New Ballot Initiative Proposes Bringing Ranked-Choice Voting And Open Primaries To D.C."
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Anonymous
Lol! I am not sure about RCV and in principle am against open primaries but as an independent in DC I am willing to consider bending that principle given the current quality of our city council. I had heard about open primaries but not RCV, so now I have to think about whether that is a good idea before voting yes on 83. |
Anonymous
Ranked choice general elections, which is what the DC Primary is in practice, tend to eliminate the extremists while keeping the party system in place. A open jungle primary would have been the best option but that isn't on the table. At least this pushes back a bit against the problems of a one party jurisdiction. |
Anonymous
| Party system gifted us some losers. |
Anonymous
Amen. Cretin what done it Yes to 83 |
Anonymous
Where is the assumption? If you register as a democrat, you vote in democratic primaries. If you register as a republican you vote in republican primaries. Maybe if enough register as independents they can have their own 3rd party primaries. There is no assumption. One registers with a policitcal party. |
Anonymous
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Or? How about we don’t do any of that and vote Yes on 83 so we can turf out Councilors on the regular, don’t have ex-convict bribe-taking folk on the ballot over and over again, and don’t have to suffer — in PPs sad but accurate turn of phrase — the “incompetent cretins” who couldn’t cut it any other job but the government taxpayer handouts for life?
I don’t wanna register as anything at all. Democracy says I can vote on Prop 83 and there’s not a damn thing you can do to stop me. |
Anonymous
Conversely, without RCV, there would be a stronger party machine that would be helping to protect his corrupt ass right now, and that potentially would have made it easier for corruption to go undetected in the first place. |
Anonymous
What are you babbling about? The investigation into Adams crimes is federal. It has nothing to do with “stronger party machine” and RCV (or lack thereof) has no effect on the investigation. Same Feds that busted Trayon White’s dumb ass for being crooked, in spite of what you undoubtedly characterize as DC’s “strong party machine.” Your dog don’t hunt. |
Anonymous
You don't think that corrupt behavior takes many forms? There are lots of ways for private actors to gain influence, and for politicians to benefit from those efforts. When there is a strong party machine, it's easier to conduct those activities in ways that are less transparent, and even legal, but that are still ethically questionable and functionally corrupt. Eric Adams and Trayon White were busted for such naked corruption because they didn't have the resources needed to do the same type of thing in a subtler way. |
Anonymous
I think you are correct. I can't affect the national decision. For open primaries, it seems to me like the only reason not to have them would be the fear that enough independents/Rs could jump sides to skew a primary toward a candidate who couldn't win the general election. That doesn't seem like a real risk with DC's demographics since whoever wins the primary is going to win the general no matter what. Happy to hear others thoughts, but appears to me its the political machine opposing and I am in favor. |
Anonymous
| Watching the Republican Party I just can not allow any of them a chance to take power. Hard no. |
Anonymous
The primaries would be open to independents, not to members of a different party -- if you're a registered Republican, you can't vote in the Democratic primary under I83, just like if you're a registered Democrat, you can't vote in the Statehood Green primary. Very little risk that a Republican would win a citywide election in D.C., which voted 91 percent for Biden in 2020 and 87 percent for Eleanor Holmes Norton. |
Anonymous
The notion that RCV would benefit Republicans is truly bizarre. Here's a list of some of the cities that already have ranked choice voting. As you can see, it's highly liberal areas that tend to like ranked choice voting. San Francisco New York City Portland, Oregon Seattle Cambridge, Massachusetts Berkeley, California Minneapolis Portland, Maine Takoma, Maryland Arlington, Virginia Burlington, Vermont |
Anonymous
Oh yeah? How come that bribed ex con was on my ballot again and has been back on the Council? Not talking about Trayon |
Anonymous
| It’s not about Republicans. It’s about the Friends & Family jobs for life and handouts to the coterie |