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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Riemer voters: Don’t blame us. This wouldn’t have happened if we had Ranked Choice Voting.

Also Riemer Voters: Don’t blame us, we would have voted for Elrich anyway.

Can someone help to explain to me how RCV would have led to a different outcome?[/quote]

Ranked Choice Voting is not going to solve this problem. People are way too stupid to understand what it means and how to fill out a ballot. I worked in surveys at my previous job. You'd be shocked at the number of people who can't handle "Rank your top 5" (in a list of 15). They'll number everything 1-5. Or they put check marks by 5 items, not #s. I don't know if RCV is even allowed within Maryland (or any political elections, for that matter).

Having a run-off when the margin is something like 0.5% or less and there are more than 2 candidates running in the primary would solve the problem. Let the top 2 duke it out.
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I agree with you. Runoffs should be the answer not RCV. I think prominent Riemer supporters push RCV because they hold onto some magical thinking that Riemer somehow would have won under this system. Which is pretty nuts considering how little support he got and inconsistent with their other common refrain about how the majority of voters* didn’t vote for Elrich.

* they always conflate all voters with Democratic primary voters. [/quote]

Yes. We need a runoff, if no one gets over 50% of the vote in the first round. It’s asinine that someone should run a county of 1 million people because he won a primary by 42 votes, with 39% of the vote. [/quote]
I agree with you on the first part and disagree on the second. There will be a general election in November that decides who will be the County Exective. Last time he won with 65% of all county voters. Margin of victory in a partisan primary is meaningless. Political parties don’t need to hold public primary elections to pick their general election candidates and the margin of victory is irrelevant. [/quote]

Of course they don’t have to hold primaries, but if they chose to do so, they should ensure the candidate gets more than 50% of the vote in order to represent the party in the general election.[/quote]

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