Ranked Choice Voting
1/5/2020 https://medium.com/@Fred_Rick/whats-wrong-with-ranked-choice-voting-5298e3b7ff9a
I googled “what is wrong with ranked choice voting. “Before pointing out where Ranked Choice
Voting is nothing more than mascara, let’s quickly delve into our voting system. Not each voter, but
the collective of voters in a district decides the race. The majority picks the representative, and not
the individual. As a result, our representatives are all majority-based winners.”
Each vote is a decision. The collective of voters in a district decides the race, but each voter allocates
his decision based on the choices laid out before him.
This guy promotes “proportional voting.” What is that, it sounds even worse than ranked choice
voting.
1/5/2020 – my own thoughts on the matter.
Voting isn’t a “choice” or an articulation of preference, as ranked choice voting would have it be, it’s a
decision. It isn’t merely free speech as protected by the Constitution, it is something more
fundamental than that. For an individual voter, it is making a hard decision. It is allocating his
governing power into the collective decision that his government will make that day. Who his
candidate will be depends on a lot of things that go beyond merely ranking preference. In fact, the
rank of preference itself will depend on the situation in which the vote allocation occurs, not least of
which includes who the other candidates may be. Taking away an individual voters right to re-allocate
his preference when the slate of candidates has changed is not only fundamentally unfair, it is
disrespectful to the voters and to the concept of democracy, and destructive to the republic.