Please sign ballot initiative 83 for Ranked Choice votinG

[Anonymous]

There's a ballot initiative coming that would 1. allow independents to vote in DC primaries and 2. bring ranked choice voting.

https://makeallvotescount...untdc.org/

https://www.washingtonpos...primaries/

[Anonymous]

1. Independents should not vote in primaries. Period. If you want to vote for a pary's nominee, join that party.

2. Ranked choice voting is a good idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. Independents should not vote in primaries. Period. If you want to vote for a pary's nominee, join that party.

2. Ranked choice voting is a good idea.

Left leaning Democrat but yes I plan to register Republican to vote in their primaries. Honestly we all should.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. Independents should not vote in primaries. Period. If you want to vote for a pary's nominee, join that party.

2. Ranked choice voting is a good idea.

There's only one election in this city that matters (the primary) and no one should be disenfranchised because they don't want to join one party or another.

[Anonymous]

Isn't ranked choice how Maine votes and that's why they get such whack-a-doodle politicians?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn't ranked choice how Maine votes and that's why they get such whack-a-doodle politicians?

I don’t like Susan Collins but I don’t think that Maine has elected whack-a-doodle politicians since adopting ranked choice voting. Here’s a list of where else it is: https://www.rcvresources.org/where-is-rcv-used

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. Independents should not vote in primaries. Period. If you want to vote for a pary's nominee, join that party.

Except the Democratic primary is the de facto general election in DC.

[Anonymous]

White progressives like RCV because they believe it will amplify their power. If you want more Frumins and Allens on Council then RCV is for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:White progressives like RCV because they believe it will amplify their power. If you want more Frumins and Allens on Council then RCV is for you.

Brianne Nadeau almost certainly would have been defeated (twice!) if we had RCV. More people in the last two Democratic primaries have voted for someone else than have voted for her. So I'm not sure that tracks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:White progressives like RCV because they believe it will amplify their power. If you want more Frumins and Allens on Council then RCV is for you.

Brianne Nadeau almost certainly would have been defeated (twice!) if we had RCV. More people in the last two Democratic primaries have voted for someone else than have voted for her. So I'm not sure that tracks.

Not really. Last time she had one candidate running to her left and one running to her right. She would have captured a lot of second choice votes as a result and could claim a majority electoral mandate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:White progressives like RCV because they believe it will amplify their power. If you want more Frumins and Allens on Council then RCV is for you.

Brianne Nadeau almost certainly would have been defeated (twice!) if we had RCV. More people in the last two Democratic primaries have voted for someone else than have voted for her. So I'm not sure that tracks.

The person you are responding to clearly doesn’t know much about RCV. It works against candidates that are popular among a minority of voters but detested by everyone else and helps those who are acceptable to the majority of voters. It’s a moderating influence if anything.

[Anonymous]

I want more republicans. Not crazy right wing ones, but just ones that understand how not to drive off business. Also, ones who care about crime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:White progressives like RCV because they believe it will amplify their power. If you want more Frumins and Allens on Council then RCV is for you.

I think you have that backwards. Ranked choice voting tends to elevate candidates who more people can stomach. In other words, fewer Democratic Socialists of American and Trump boot-lickers. Sounds like a good idea to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:White progressives like RCV because they believe it will amplify their power. If you want more Frumins and Allens on Council then RCV is for you.

I think you have that backwards. Ranked choice voting tends to elevate candidates who more people can stomach. In other words, fewer Democratic Socialists of American and Trump boot-lickers. Sounds like a good idea to me.

Not really. RCV has proven to confuse voters and decrease turnout, making elections and particularly primary elections even more subject to capture by motivated activists. It’s also easy to envisage how RCV can be manipulated by purposeful strategic voting which white progressives probably fancy themselves better at orchestrating than grannies in Ward 8. Additionally, RCV raises computation questions which can impact election outcomes, which was the big complaint in Arlington. The white Progressives were mad that the voting and computation created what they considered to be “wasted votes” that could not be counted towards their preferred candidate. And that’s the biggest problem with RCV, if how you count can impact the process then it’s not a fair process. If you want to improve current processes to get better outcomes, runoff elections to ensure that a candidate has to have a majority is the only way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:White progressives like RCV because they believe it will amplify their power. If you want more Frumins and Allens on Council then RCV is for you.

Frumin is running Ward 3 into the ground.