New York's rank choice vote fiasco

 Emily Brooks:

Frustration over delays and tabulation mishaps in New York’s Democratic mayoral primary is fueling a wave of Republican opposition to an increasingly popular election structure change.

Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton called it a “corrupt scam.” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy dinged it as “woke.” New York Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney argued that it “disenfranchises” voters.

Jason Snead, executive director of the conservative-leaning Honest Elections Project, said ranked-choice voting is a “solution in search of a problem.”

“It just makes the process more complex. It does not do anything to improve voter turnout or bolster voter confidence in the elections, and it is truly an unnecessary reform,” Snead added.

NYC ELECTION DISASTER COULD UNDERMINE DEMOCRATIC ARGUMENT FOR ELECTION OVERHAULS

Ranked-choice voting, also called an automatic runoff, is a system of relocating votes from bottom-tier candidates in races with at least three candidates to subsequent preferences until one candidate reaches at least 50% of the vote. According to FairVote, the system is used in two states, one county, 26 cities outside of Utah, and 23 Utah cities.
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“New York’s unverified absentee ballot portal, lack of voter ID requirement and use of rank choice voting has led to yet another election marred by inaccurate counts,” Tenney, co-chairwoman of the House Election Integrity Caucus, said in a statement. “This is further shaking voter confidence, which is already at an all-time low.”

McCarthy went so far as to call ranked-choice voting “woke,” comparing it to a culture war issue.

“That race for mayor in New York, it’s a crime that we don’t know who won yet. Now they’ve gone so woke that it’s a ranked system that you can’t know for weeks on end,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said on a recent episode of the Megyn Kelly Show podcast. “Is there anything sacred in this country anymore that does not go woke? To our elections, that you can’t know when, who won, or how they won?”
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I think it is a wacky system even if it worked or they had a computer program that could figure out who won.  And why didn't they have a computer that could measure the ranked choices if they are going to have such a goofy crapshoot of a system?  Why not just have a runoff between the top two finishers if there are more than two running?  Why would anyone want Democrats overhauling an election?

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