{"id":2256640,"date":"2024-05-31T11:53:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T15:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-landry-signs-bill-protecting-louisiana-elections-from-ranked-choice-voting\/"},"modified":"2024-05-31T11:55:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T15:55:27","slug":"gov-landry-signs-bill-protecting-louisiana-elections-from-ranked-choice-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-landry-signs-bill-protecting-louisiana-elections-from-ranked-choice-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Landry Enacts Law Safeguarding Louisiana Elections Against Ranked-Choice Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fgov-landry-signs-bill-protecting-louisiana-elections-from-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=2256640&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--><p>Louisiana Governor Jeff \u2064Landry has\u200d signed a bill \u200cprohibiting\u2063 ranked-choice\u2062 voting in \u2064elections, ensuring it\u200b cannot \u200bbe used to determine the election or \u2063nomination \u200dof candidates for \u2064various offices in the state. The legislation exempts votes cast by military and overseas voters. The \u200dbill passed through\u2064 the Senate and House with\u2062 significant support\u200c and was sponsored by GOP Senator Blake Miguez. This summary captures the key points\u200d about \u200dGovernor Jeff Landry signing \u200ca bill to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ohio-republican-introduces-bill-to-ban-ranked-choice-voting-in-statewide-elections\/\" title=\"Ohio Republican proposes bill to prohibit ranked-choice voting in statewide elections.\">prohibit ranked-choice voting<\/a> \u2062in Louisiana elections,\u200d with exemptions for military and overseas votes. The bill\u2063 had strong support in both the Senate and House and was \u2064sponsored by Republican \u2062Senator Blake Miguez.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>                         <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed legislation Tuesday prohibiting the use of ranked-choice voting (RCV) in elections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legis.la.gov\/legis\/BillInfo.aspx?s=24rs&#038;b=SB101&#038;sbi=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SB 101<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legis.la.gov\/legis\/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380740\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stipulates<\/a> that a \u201cranked-choice voting or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-landry-wont-say-if-hell-sign-a-bill-shielding-louisianas-elections-from-ranked-choice-voting\/\" title=\"Governor Landry Silent on Bill Protecting Louisiana Elections from Ranked-Choice Voting\">instant runoff voting method<\/a> shall not be used in determining the election or nomination of any candidate to any local, state, or federal elective office in this state.\u201d The bill would not apply to \u201call votes cast by military and overseas voters by special absentee by mail ballots in accordance with the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SB 101 originally passed the Senate in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legis.la.gov\/legis\/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355955\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">29-9 vote<\/a> in March. An amended version of the bill was passed by the House (73-23) on May 15 and subsequently concurred with by the Senate (29-8) last week.<\/p>\n<p>SB 101 was sponsored by GOP Sen. Blake Miguez, a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/02\/05\/thanks-to-the-state-freedom-caucus-network-gop-legislatures-are-getting-more-conservative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Louisiana Freedom Caucus<\/a>. Miguez also sponsored Louisiana\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/10\/16\/louisiana-joins-states-banning-zuckbucks-but-will-that-be-enough-to-stop-dems-private-election-takeover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recently enacted<\/a> constitutional amendment banning \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/12\/the-2020-election-wasnt-stolen-it-was-bought-by-mark-zuckerberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zuckbucks<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under RCV, voters rank candidates in order of preference. If no candidate receives more than 50 percent 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. This process continues until one candidate receives a majority of votes.<\/p>\n<p>RCV has caused an array of problems in the states and municipalities where it\u2019s been implemented. Among the most significant are <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/03\/17\/minnesota-could-be-third-state-to-adopt-ranked-choice-voting-following-alaska-and-maine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">inaccurate election outcomes<\/a>. In an Oakland school board race, for example, \u201celection officials announced \u2014 two months after the fact \u2014 that <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/01\/11\/ranked-choice-voting-keeps-rigging-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">they got the count wrong<\/a>,\u201d resulting in the \u201crightful winner \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/trial-set-for-next-month-to-determine-winner-of-ousd-school-board-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suing<\/a> for his seat.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The system has also led to high rates of ballots being thrown out and electors having their votes disenfranchised. A <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/10\/31\/ranked-choice-voting-is-the-monster-under-the-bed-of-american-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2023 study<\/a> published by the Foundation for Government Accountability discovered that RCV ballots are often discarded due to \u201cballot exhaustion,\u201d which occurs when voters select only one candidate on their ballot, and those ballots are tossed because\u00a0their first choice didn\u2019t win a majority in the first round. In Alaska\u2019s 2022 special congressional election, for instance, more than 11,000 \u201cexhausted\u201d ballots were discarded because those electors \u201cvoted for only one Republican candidate and no one else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RCV has also produced election results that contradict the desires of voters. Some of these examples include the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youngkin-vetoes-disastrous-bill-expanding-ranked-choice-voting-in-virginia\/\" title=\"Youngkin rejects bill to expand ranked-choice voting in Virginia, calling it 'disastrous\">aforementioned special congressional election<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/01\/11\/ranked-choice-voting-keeps-rigging-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alaska<\/a> and a 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/maine-congressman-loses-seat-in-controversial-ranked-choice-voting-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maine congressional contest<\/a>. The Democrat candidates won both races despite Republican candidates receiving more votes in the first round of voting.<\/p>\n<p>SB 101\u2019s implementation makes Louisiana the <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Ranked-choice_voting_(RCV)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">10th state<\/a> to prohibit the use of RCV in its elections. Other states to prohibit the system this year include Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Oklahoma. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a <a href=\"https:\/\/electiontransparency.org\/2024\/05\/17\/missouri-victory-general-assembly-sends-constitutional-amendment-banning-foreign-citizen-voting-ranked-choice-voting-to-nov-ballot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">constitutional amendment proposal<\/a> prohibiting the use of RCV in Missouri elections will appear on the state\u2019s fall ballot.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div data-image data-amount=\"5\">\n<h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed legislation on Tuesday banning the use of ranked-choice voting (RCV) in elections. The bill, SB 101, specifies that RCV or instant runoff voting methods are prohibited in any candidate election or nomination for local, state, or federal offices in the state<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":2256641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/unnamed-10.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2256640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/unnamed-10.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256640","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=2256640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2256641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2256640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2256640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2256640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}