{"id":1831858,"date":"2023-02-01T15:04:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T20:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1831858"},"modified":"2023-02-01T15:10:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T20:10:36","slug":"state-lawmakers-should-follow-the-rncs-lead-and-reject-ranked-choice-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-lawmakers-should-follow-the-rncs-lead-and-reject-ranked-choice-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"State Lawmakers Should Follow The RNC\u2019s Lead And Reject Ranked-Choice Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstate-lawmakers-should-follow-the-rncs-lead-and-reject-ranked-choice-voting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1831858&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>While most corporate media coverage of last week\u2019s Republican National Committee (RNC) meeting was devoted to the contested leadership race between Ronna McDaniel and Harmeet Dhillon, the organization\u2019s conference yielded a significant win for election integrity.<\/p>\n<p>The RNC members unanimously voted against the use rank-choice voting (RCV). An RCV system allows voters to rank candidates according to their preference. If no candidate receives a majority of first-choice votes in the first round of voting, the last-place finisher is eliminated, and his votes are reallocated to the voter\u2019s second-choice candidate. The process continues until one candidate is elected to the majority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTraditional American primary and general elections ensure that voters who support one candidate, not a plurality of candidates, are heard clearly while ranked choice voting schemes open elections to \u2018ballot exhaustion\u2019 or the disenfranchisement of voters who choose not to support multiple candidates who do not clearly represent their values,\u201d The <a href=\"https:\/\/slcogop.com\/norcv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RNC resolution<\/a> reads. The committee voted against RCV. \u201csimilar schemes that increase election distrust, and voter suppression and disenfranchisement, eliminate the historic political party system, and put elections in the hands of expensive election schemes that cost taxpayers and depend exclusively on confusing technology and unelected bureaucrats to manage it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As The Federalist\u2019s Victoria Marshall has <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/26\/ranked-choice-voting-failed-to-make-ballot-in-missouri-but-beware-the-left-will-keep-pushing-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>RCV support is mainly being driven by moderate Republicans and Democrat activists groups, in order to elect more conservative, establishment candidates. In <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/09\/alaskas-ranked-choice-voting-scheme-was-a-plot-to-save-murkowski-but-it-also-doomed-palin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alaska<\/a>, centrist Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski was behind the state\u2019s adoption of an RCV system in 2020 to avoid accountability from voters during her 2022 reelection bid. Not only did RCV allow Murkowski to defeat Trump-backed challenger Kelly Tshibaka in the general election, it also gave Democrat Mary Peltola the boost she needed to beat Republican Sarah Palin for control of Alaska\u2019s at-large congressional seat.<\/p>\n<p> RCV Awareness Campaign &#8211; A National Push <\/p>\n<p>RCV is currently used for elections in Alaska and Maine. But, state legislatures are pushing to expand it across the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to a January NBC News report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/following-a-big-year-more-states-push-ranked-choice-voting\/ar-AA16oyZa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Report<\/a>, \u201clawmakers in 14 states have introduced, filed and prefiled 27 bills that propose various iterations of ranked-choice voting.\u201d For example, Connecticut&#8217;s two Democratic state representatives introduced two RCV laws last month. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cga.ct.gov\/asp\/cgabillstatus\/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&#038;bill_num=HB5133&#038;which_year=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">One<\/a> Localities can adopt an RCV-style system. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cga.ct.gov\/asp\/cgabillstatus\/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&#038;bill_num=HB5087&#038;which_year=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Other<\/a> RCV must be used in Connecticut for both state and federal elections.<\/p>\n<p>In Virginia, efforts to expand RCV are a bipartisan venture, with both Democrats and Republicans introducing a collective four bills on the subject during this year\u2019s legislative session. GOP Del. Robert S. Bloxom, Jr. filed for a <a href=\"https:\/\/lis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB2301&#038;231+sum+HB2301\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bill<\/a> This would allow political parties to use RCV in presidential primaries. The legislature\u2019s remaining RCV-related bills (<a href=\"https:\/\/lis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1751&#038;231+sum+HB1751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HB 1751<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB1380&#038;231+sum+SB1380\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SB 1380<\/a>And <a href=\"https:\/\/lis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB2118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HB 2118<\/a>) have since been passed by indefinitely or tabled by House and Senate committees.<\/p>\n<p>Lynn Taylor, co-founder and president of the Virginia Institute, was interviewed by The Federalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RNC members unanimously passed a resolution last week rejecting ranked-choice voting in U.S. elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":1713484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[7315,3673,6961,9983,10084,15713,4351],"class_list":["post-1831858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-follow","tag-lawmakers","tag-lead","tag-ranked-choice","tag-reject","tag-rncs","tag-voting"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1831858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1713484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1831858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1831858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1831858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}