Ranked Choice Voting....The Chicken Soup or the Beef Barley....Begs to Question....
A Quick example of the logic of Ranked Choice Voting...
Be careful...It Just Might Leave a Bad Taste in your Mouth...
100 diners are at the soup kitchen....
The chef asks all what would the patrons like...
Chicken Noodle...Beef Barley...French Onion....Clam Chowder or Borscht....
30 Chicken Noodle
19 Beef Barley
18 French Onion
17 Clam Chowder
16 Borscht (beet soup)
In Regular Voting Chicken Noodle gets the nod...
But at the Next dinner, Somebody suggested regular voting wasn't fair enough,
so they wanted to muddle the issue and try Ranked Choice Voting...
It all Started the same...
30 Chicken Noodle
19 Beef Barley
18 French Onion
17 Clam Chowder
16 Borscht (beet soup)
So the 16 who voted for Borscht..their votes get a second chance and are now applied a second time,
to each of their second choice votes (not their favorite)...
which just happens to be 16 for Clam Chowder...
30 Chicken Noodle
33 Clam Chowder
19 Beef Barley
18 French Onion
Now...the 18 French Onion voters next choice comes in to play....
It just so happens that all 18 of the French Onions next choice were Clam Chowder...
and Clam Chowder subsequently wins the majority vote...51%
51 Clam Chowder
30 Chicken Noodle
19 Beef Barley
The Indicative Results....
Only 17% of the voters got their real favorite or their best choice...
The rest of the voters got somebody they really didn't think were the best...represented in their 2nd or less than perfect choice...
The 4th place position in the 1st vote...became the actual "winner"...due to the losing votes being reapplied....
Is the soup analogy practical...well...the vote outcome is certainly possible...and the indications are real.
This is indicative of this attempt to make a new generation of multiple choice voting...aka Political Spin the Bottle...Multiple Random Guess...
Common Core applied to Voting....
You think it's bad now...but with Ranked Choice Voting People will be in the ballot booth picking the next choice candidates
based on how their name sounds..."oh I heard that name before"...check..."oh I saw her sign at the supermarket"...check...
oh...I think that's the neighbors cousin's last name...check....oh...check that name off...we need 5....
Multiple Guess...Just like those school tests...Multiple Guess...for Maine and America's Future....
Random Choice voting = leveling the "playing field" to mediocrity...in the guise of majority of voter's choice....
Not the candidate favored by most...Not the "Best"....RCV Just opening more doors to accepting mediocrity
for who's running our Country and our Government...
RCV gives votes cast on the worst candidate...a 2nd chance...maybe a 3rd and a 4th...etc...
marginalizing the critical nature of voters making an important decision and then casting their vote...
and the importance and duty of our sacred right we have of voting...
Marginalized to Multiple Choice (Guess)
Supporters of this mess:
Eliot Cutler, two-time gubernatorial candidate
League of Women Voters of Maine
Kerri Prescott Bickford (R), former member of the Maine House of Representatives
Ben Chin,(D) political engagement director for Maine People's Alliance
Opposition:
Marian McCue, the former editor and publisher of The Forecaster (in Maine), said:
“ One problem of RCV is that especially with lots of candidates, a winner can be chosen with a relatively small number of first-place votes. This was exactly what happened in the city of Oakland, California, in 2010 when Jean Quan, who received only 24 percent of votes in the first round, ended up winning the election because she was the second and third choice of many voters. In Burlington, Vermont, after the leader in the first round did not win an election, RCV was repealed.
In an opinion article, Maine's Rep. Heather Sirocki (R-28) argued against ranked choice voting, saying that it would:
“
violate the Maine Constitution in two ways – Plurality Requirement and Instant Runoff Tabulation Requirements
lead to costly court challenges
make Maine the only state in the nation to implement RCV
be costly to implement- an estimated $1.5 million for new equipment
also include the federal candidates running for U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, as well as Maine Governor, Maine Senate, and Maine Representatives to the House
involve instant recounts if there are more than two candidates that do not result in a majority vote
be time consuming
further disenfranchise voters by using the recounted ballots of the loser to determine the winner
Ranked Choice Voting is CLEARLY NOT the panacea some would claim it to be...not unless you're trying to achieve mediocrity....wonder why???
Better think twice about the people and groups pushing Ranked Choice Voting...Don't ya' think!...I don't think they have the honest, best interests at heart for Maine or America....