When it comes down to it, Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) leaves us with such a bad taste in our mouths that it can’t even be washed out with ultra-minty toothpaste. The key takeaways from this system are summed up here in a most revealing way.
The Heritage Foundation:
1. Ranked choice voting is a scheme to disconnect elections from issues and allow candidates with marginal support from voters to win.
2. It obscures true debates and issue-driven dialogs among candidates and eliminates genuine binary choices between two top-tier candidates.
3. It also disenfranchises voters, because ballots that do not include the two ultimate finalists are cast aside to manufacture a faux majority for the winner.
While there is much more to learn about the intricacies of this system, suffice it to say that many will understand the undermining impact of Ranked Choice Voting only AFTER the elections are over…when it is much too late to do anything about it or to debate it. US Representative Bruce Poliquin found that out the hard way.
As for FairVote.org, Democracy Fund, and many other fancy and “fair” sounding groups, know that they are being orchestrated and coordinated by the same people who brought you the Jill Stein recount effort and the Electoral College intimidation video by Hollywood know-it-alls who thought the American public was just too stupid to make an informed choice at the presidential level.
InfluenceWatch:
The National Popular Vote seeks to eliminate the Electoral College in national elections. Rob Richie, as executive director of FairVote, co-authored Every Vote Equal, a book that includes a forward from John B. Anderson. FairVote advertises the fact that they have been the research arm of the national popular vote movement since 2005.
And the Who’s Who of the NPR jet-set that funds them:
Major funding to FairVote has come from a number of prominent left-of-center private grantmaking foundations and public charities, including the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, Omidyar Network Fund, Open Society Foundations, Jennifer and Jonathan Allan Soros Foundation, Democracy Fund, Tides Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Joyce Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Public Welfare Foundation, Soros Fund Charitable Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation.
You’ve probably already noticed a few things about this list…Open Society Foundations, Jennifer and Jonathan Allan Soros Foundation and the Soros Fund Charitable Foundation. I think I’ve said enough about that.
As for Democracy Fund (owned by Omidyar Network Fund):
Democracy Fund makes grants to a number of classes of organizations. They include liberal-leaning journalism outfits, most notably the publisher of controversial “fact-checking” website Politifact; election-related groups like Issue One which seek to institute tighter limits on political advocacy, like Democracy Works which seek to change how votes are cast, and like Rock the Vote which register left-leaning voters; and nominally centrist policy organizations like the No Labels Foundation.
In 2016, Politifact announced that Democracy Fund had pledged $500,000 over a two-year period to expand Politifact’s operations. In October 2016, during the height of the 2016 Presidential election, Politifact apparently wrongly classified reporting by a conservative-leaning news website on a partly Omidyar Network-funded Clinton Foundation program as inaccurate. Politifact initially denied receiving funding from Omidyar groups (which include Democracy Fund) when questioned about its report.
Bottom line is that this RCV system is coming to your home state at some time in the near future…or sooner. Can we afford to be giving all of our precious votes to the people mentioned above whose sole endgame objective is to amend our US Constitution and abolish the Electoral College, eliminating any chance at free and fair elections?
I think the answer is obvious.
Source: The Heritage Foundation / FairVote.Org / InfluenceWatch 1 / InfluenceWatch 2 / Sage Journals / Oxford Academic / Western Washington University / Must Read Alaska / Fox News Channel
It’s c**k wonbles like you who are hastening it’s demise.. it’s every person who wants this corrupt government to succeed. What it’s goal is to do is work with the electoral college and break the 2 party system. But I wouldn’t expect your dumbass to understand it since you’re part of the problem
F**k this little snowflake bastard from Indiana that is being paid by Soros to try and destroy the electoral college vote
This should not even be discussed. Our country has a voting system in place and it’s fair.
Why would someone want to change it? Please look for the answer to that question; you won’t like the truth if you can find it.