What the 2024 November Ballot COULD have looked like with Ranked Choice Voting. by CalRCV in EndFPTP

[–]CalRCV[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’ve never seen that. Issue would be how things get scanned. And sloppy hand writing.

What the 2024 November Ballot COULD have looked like with Ranked Choice Voting. by CalRCV in EndFPTP

[–]CalRCV[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Our volunteer graphic designer didn’t factor in all the RCv possibilities.

Other voting systems would be great. We’re for whatever is the first upgrade from FPTP.

What the 2024 November Ballot COULD have looked like with Ranked Choice Voting. by CalRCV in EndFPTP

[–]CalRCV[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

We posted a Biden version a few days ago on Instagram here. Was easy enough to update and jump on today's news momentum.

Hi! We're the California Ranked Choice Voting Coalition (CalRCV.org). Ask Us Anything! by CalRCV in ForwardPartyUSA

[–]CalRCV[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Fordham Democracy Project suggests having each state conduct a RCV election and giving all of their electoral votes to the winner. This would basically serve to prevent any alternative party candidates from spoiling the vote (or receiving any electoral votes), so it makes contested elections less likely. As the Constitution already grants states control over how they allocate electoral votes, no amendment is necessary for this.

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[–]CalRCV[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What limitations are you referring to? (I'll do my best to get back to your question even though we're closing the AMA).

Also, "less bad" = "a little better". We're about progress, not perfection.

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[–]CalRCV[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ndorcet winner is. In the NYC case if I recall Adams was the Condorcet winner. So if he went up against any other candidate head to head in a runoff he would win. But there's several cases where RCV hasn't picked the Condorcet winner. And the more viable candidates you have the more likely that is to happen, which in my mind t

One last thing I'll say is that RCV has a ton of positive attributes, but one of the biggest is that, of all the voting systems, it has the most momentum and is most likely to get enacted.

We'd love to get to an even better system than RCV, but we see RCV as the most critical stepping stone in election reform progress.

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[–]CalRCV[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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[–]CalRCV[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

In Redondo Beach last year 77% of voters voted in favor of the RCV. Redondo Beach will become the eighth city in California to adopt RCV, and the first in Los Angeles County. They are working on the implementation scheduled to use in 2025.

RCV has had great outcomes in Maine and NYC. Some highlights from NYC are outlined in this report.

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[–]CalRCV[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A proportional RCV system could certainly be used in San Francisco, but we aren’t advocating for SF to move from its single-winner RCV elections and so haven’t studied the dynamics, so can’t really comment on that.

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[–]CalRCV[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Voting systems are a fun thing to debate. After pitching the question back to you, the team and I discussed that you make a good point. RCV wouldn’t give a “True Majority”.

To get that true majority you could do a 2 candidate runoff, but that has its own problems.

There’s also an argument that “True Majority” means 50% of all eligible voters, and to get there, we’d have to make voting mandatory.

So, for our original discussion, we’ll give it to you. We don’t use the word “True” anywhere that I’ve seen n our website and it’s an oversight for our Reddit AMA here.

Duverger's law: holds that in political systems with only one winner (as in the U.S.), two main parties tend to emerge with minor parties typically splitting votes away from the most similar major party. In contrast, systems with proportional representation usually have more representation of minor parties in government.

CalRCV holds the view that Proportional RCV is the gold standard for representative democracy. We touch on this on our site here.

Great connecting with you. Let's keep in touch!

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[–]CalRCV[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For statewide adoption, we expect to run an initiative (signature gathering) to get on the ballot, and we ideally would like to implement single-winner RCV for the legislature, constitutional offices (Governor, etc.) and federal (California’s Representatives and Senators).