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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]

That’s why they dropped out, to avoid splitting the vote of the bloc of people they mostly agreed with. Under RCV, they basically stay in until the election and then drop out after the first round of ballots are counted. [/quote]

It's being pushed by moderates and educated voters sick of machine politics.  [/quote]

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