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REJECT RANK CHOICE VOTING
DOWNLOAD FULL REPORT: The America First Policy Paper on the dysfunction of ranked Choice Voting.
Ranked Choice Voting (RCV), as defined below, is an overly complicated system that is not popular among the vast majority of Americans and often prevents the candidate receiving the most votes from being declared the winner. Studies show Ranked Choice Voting discourages voter participation, adds wait time for results, does not decrease negative ads, puts a greater strain on election workers, and increases voter distrust. Instead of making it easy to vote but hard to cheat, RCV will confuse voters and discourage more citizens from voting. The purpose of this act is to ban RCV in states.
Section 1. {Definitions}
Ranked Choice Voting is defined as a method for casting and tabulating votes in which voters rank candidates for an office in order of preference, and then tabulation occurs in rounds, with each round dropping the candidate with the least support and then reallocating the first-place votes from the eliminated candidate to the second-choice candidates.
Section 2. {Basic Elements of the Bill}As of [bill effective date], Ranked Choice Voting may not be used to elect or nominate any candidate to any local, state, or federal office in [state]. Any election utilizing Ranked Choice Voting is invalid. No official may be sworn into office on the basis of such an election.
The prohibitions of this section do not apply to the internal processes of political parties, such as conventions, the elections of political party officers, or other non-public decision-making procedures by political parties.
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In recent weeks, more citizens have become aware of a dangerous threat to America’s election process called “Ranked Choice Voting.” It is appearing in legislation in many states, mostly recently in Virginia, and is sometimes even embraced by Republicans who have not done enough homework to understand the danger it represents. RCV results in votes being discarded, it causes chaos and confusion among both voters and election officials, and creates opportunities for manipulation of election outcomes through adding and subtracting candidates without voters present and participating at the time. To name just a few of the problems….
Because of this renewed effort by proponents of Rigged Choice Voting, we are re-publishing a recent episode of the Who’s Counting? podcast in which Cleta interviews Hans von Spakovsky, Senior Legal Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. Hans is an attorney and nationally renowned expert in election law and procedures. In this episode, Cleta and Hans expose this emerging threat to election integrity posed by Rigged Choice Voting. Complex, confusing and arguably unconstitutional; it is destabilizing to our electoral process, unfair to our voters, and must be stopped.
A report on ranked choice voting by Hans and J. Christian Adams of the Public Interest Legal Foundation can be found here and Hans’ most recent article just published, pointing out the dangers of RCV in real time is here.
RCV’s failures are already appearing. In Maine in 2018, a GOP candidate won the majority of votes in the first round but a Democrat was declared the winner in subsequent counting rounds after 8,000 votes were discarded.
In the New York City 2021 mayoral race, more than 141,000 ballots (15% of votes cast) were discarded and those citizens lost their political voice. And worse, the counting took almost three weeks after the election before a winner was declared. Even liberal CNN published a critique of ranked choice voting: The hugely consequential New York City Democratic Primary election took place last Tuesday, June 22, and the winner is … “chaos.”
Most recently in Oakland, CA, after the 2022 general election, a school board candidate who came in third is now being told he may have won after the machine was incorrectly programmed by election officials for multiple rounds of RCV ballot tabulation, with this headline in the local newspaper: “After election debacle in Oakland, what’s next for ranked choice voting?”
And in Alaska, there are bills and an initiative petition already filed to repeal that state’s ranked choice voting system. Petition calls Alaska’s ranked-choice voting a ‘threat to democracy and our Republic’ (alaskawatchman.com)
Call your legislators, your local election officials, and city council and county commissioners. Put a stop to the rigging of America’s election systems with the so-called ‘ranked choice voting’.
