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There's a reason why the incumbent politicians loathe this proposal so much: it's a direct threat to them. DC has a long track record of fractured opposition to unpopular electeds. That would translate to incumbents losing with RCV. There's a very real chance the DC Council will look different if this passes. Which is why I look forward to voting for it.

Brianne Nadeau should be absolutely terrified of RCV.[/quote]

If RCV can help us get rid of Brianne, I will happily sign up to canvas door to door in favor of switching to it.[/quote]

All semi-unpopular incumbents (Bonds, Bowser, Mendelsohn, Nadeau) will be threatened by RCV because it will limit the extent to which they can split the opposition vote, but I think RCV will make the most difference in primaries without an incumbent. These are generally a complete farce in DC. See Ward 2 in 2020 and Ward 3 in 2022 for examples.[/quote]

I support RCV.  But why would you call Ward 3's primary in 2022 a "complete farce"?  We had like a pretty close race between two candidates and there was like a dozen total in the field.  Some made up bullshit right here.[/quote]

I don’t know if you followed the race but the only reason it was a close race in the end was because two or three candidates - who had similar platforms - effectively dropped out a couple of weeks or so before the election. The loser later cried foul and accused those who dropped out of trying to manipulate democracy and what not. I would describe it as a farce, yes, although perhaps not as bad as the Ward 7 primary this year or most at-large races.[/quote]

RCV would have made it so those candidates could have stayed in and still had the same result. But I don't know that candidates dropping out is bad for democracy. Only one of them can win. No point being a spoiler when you know it's down to someone you like and someone you don't like.[/quote]

Right, but if they hadn't dropped out the result might have been different.  A few years ago when Pinto one the Ward 2 primary it was a similar ridiculousness of each candidate being within a few 100 votes of each other and getting a small percentage of the voters in that ward.  [/quote]

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