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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]
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. [/quote]

PP, and I'd be in favor of looking at runoff elections as well.  There may be a better way than RCV, but it's good to see many of us agree the status quo isn't working. [/quote]

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