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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Turnout in primaries is pathetic. This ballot initiative will greatly increase voter participation, which everyone should support. [/quote]
RCV doesn’t increase turnout. The impact of RCV in Maine was studied at MIT and they produced some very concerning findings that contradict the claims by proponents like you. 
[quote]RCV produced significantly lower levels of voter confidence, voter satisfaction, and ease of use. It also increased the perception that the voting process was slanted against the respondent’s party. Similarly, I found that it increased the amount of time it took to vote[/quote]
https://electionlab.mit.edu/articles/effect-ranked-choice-voting-maine

It’s also concerning that the people pushing RCV are out of state activists with no vested interest in DC except to use it for their policy experiments. Don’t fall for it. 
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None of that was “very concerning” it was just qualitative noise from a perception survey. The benefits of RCV far outweigh any “ease of use” concerns which can be addressed by better ballot design etc rather than scrap RCV entirely.[/quote]

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