{"id":2448213,"date":"2025-06-17T07:50:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T11:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-nyc-elects-a-far-left-socialist-blame-ranked-choice-voting\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T07:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T11:53:14","slug":"if-nyc-elects-a-far-left-socialist-blame-ranked-choice-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-nyc-elects-a-far-left-socialist-blame-ranked-choice-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"If NYC Elects A Far-Left Socialist, Blame 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\">18<\/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%2Fif-nyc-elects-a-far-left-socialist-blame-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=2448213&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>The article discusses the potential rise of Zohran Mamdani, an open socialist and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, in the New York City mayoral Democratic primary, driven by the implementation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/andrew-yang-has-commanding-lead-in-nyc-mayoral-race-poll-shows\/\" title=\"Andrew Yang Has Commanding Lead In ...al Race, Poll Shows\">ranked-choice voting<\/a>. Mamdani&#8217;s platform includes proposals such as rent freezes and free public transport, which critics argue could accelerate taxpayer migration from New York to states wiht lower taxes. ranked-choice voting is presented as a system that allows fringe candidates like Mamdani to gain traction, as it involves voters ranking multiple candidates, which can lead to artificially manufactured majorities and disenfranchise voters if their choices are not ranked properly.<\/p>\n<p>The piece warns of the complications associated with ranked-choice voting, citing instances where the system has caused delays, ballot exhaustion, and erroneous outcomes in various elections across the United states. Notably, it refers to past controversies in Portland, Maine, and Alameda county, California, demonstrating how ranked-choice voting can yield problematic results. Additionally, the article argues that voters may feel compelled to rank candidates they oppose, undermining the electoral process&#8217;s integrity.<\/p>\n<p>Despite concerns and disfavor from many states regarding ranked-choice voting-where several have recently enacted bans-the left continues to promote it for political advantage. The article concludes by urging voters and legislators to reject electoral systems that compromise voter trust and the principle of one person, one vote, suggesting that the rise of a socialist candidate in NYC serves as a warning signal.  <\/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<p>New York City &mdash; the city that never sleeps &mdash; may be two weeks away from sleepwalking its way into advancing an open socialist in the mayoral Democrat primary. Voters would have ranked-choice voting to thank for the assist.<\/p>\n<p>Zohran Mamdani, a New York state assembly member and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zohranfornyc.com\/#about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">promised<\/a> everything from a rent freeze, free bus fare, and government-owned grocery stores. His socialist utopia would put the Empire State exodus on overdrive as productive taxpayers <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/01\/us-news\/14b-in-income-left-nyc-as-residents-fled-to-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">flee<\/a> to lower-tax states.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez-<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/alexandra-ocasio-cortez-endorses-zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayoral\/story?id=122552191\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">endorsed candidate<\/a> would be a fringe long shot in most elections around the country, he has a real shot at winning in NYC because giving far-left outliers viability is a feature &mdash; not a bug &mdash; of ranked-choice voting.<\/p>\n<p>The name &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefga.org\/blog\/how-does-ranked-choice-voting-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ranked-choice voting<\/a>&rdquo; intends to describe a process where voters rank multiple candidates for the same office. In reality, the manufactured majorities and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefga.org\/press\/fga-launches-trashed-ballots-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trashed ballots<\/a> of the hidden tabulation process have led to outcome errors, multiple recounts, and delayed results. It replaces the time-tested principle of one person, one vote with a convoluted process, better suited to an academic theory than an actual American election.<\/p>\n<p>Counting this ranked order of candidates requires multiple rounds of tabulation via computer algorithm. This algorithm drops the lowest vote-getter in each round and reapportions their votes to other candidates until someone reaches 50 percent plus one. This system artificially manufactures a majority winner. Even worse, if a voter doesn&rsquo;t rank every candidate on his ballot, that ballot may be discarded by the final round, resulting in voter disenfranchisement.<\/p>\n<p>If you think electing a socialist in New York City seems farfetched, look no further than Portland, Maine, where a fringe candidate received only <a href=\"https:\/\/content.civicplus.com\/api\/assets\/67ed8253-634d-465f-8976-6a010e5105d6?cache=1800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">four percent<\/a> of the vote but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmtw.com\/article\/ranked-choice-plays-significant-role-in-portland-charter-commission-election\/36677386\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">won<\/a> a seat after multiple rounds of tabulation.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond aiding fringe candidates, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawsuit-claims-ranked-choice-voting-ballot-measure-breaches-idaho-law\/\" title=\"Lawsuit Claims ... Ballot Measure Breaches Idaho Law\">ranked-choice voting&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s track record is riddled with problems. In a 2021 Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/16\/nyc-shows-why-ranked-choice-voting-is-a-liberal-disaster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">primary<\/a> for NYC mayor that took nearly a month to conclude, 140,000 ballots were &ldquo;exhausted&rdquo;&mdash; nearly 15 percent of the total. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/09\/01\/peltola-palin-ranked-choice-voting-alaska\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2022 special election<\/a> for Alaska&rsquo;s at-large congressional seat resulted in a Democrat winner, despite 60 percent of votes for a Republican candidate in the first round. Nearly 15,000 ballots were tossed in the trash during a two-week process to declare a winner.<\/p>\n<p>Ranked-choice voting threatens any hope of trustworthy elections. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefga.org\/blog\/alameda-county-is-the-unofficial-poster-child-of-ranked-choice-votings-failures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alameda County<\/a>, California, made headlines in 2023 when the results of a school board election were overturned. Errors in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/glenn-youngkin-wins-gop-nomination-for-governor-of-virginia\/\" title=\"Glenn Youngkin Wins GOP Nomination For Governor Of Virginia\">ranked-choice voting system<\/a> had led to the wrong candidate being declared the winner, but the mistake wasn&rsquo;t caught for nearly two months.<\/p>\n<p>Two years later, Alameda County again <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/04\/16\/oakland-mayor-election-results-too-close-to-call-00292540\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stalled<\/a> in its recent special election for mayor because of ranked-choice voting. Candidates were resigned to a &ldquo;long week&rdquo; of tabulation, and <a href=\"https:\/\/fairvote.org\/oakland-mayoral-election-2025-analysis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FairVote<\/a> offered an extremely convoluted analysis of the results after a candidate dropped out and a winner was declared. It may not be the wrong candidate winning this time, but the traditional system of one person, one vote isn&rsquo;t nearly this dramatic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Time and again, ranked-choice voting places the burden on American voters, requiring them to know not just who they want to win, but also every single candidate and the order in which they&rsquo;d want them to win. It forces voters to vote for candidates they oppose, even those whose views are diametrically opposed to their fundamental beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>There is good news, though. By and large, states are <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/campaign\/5253950-ranked-choice-voting-unpopular-legislatures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rejecting<\/a> ranked-choice voting.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, voters in six states rebuffed ballot measures to adopt ranked-choice, and lawmakers in Missouri passed a statewide ban on ranked-choice voting. This year, lawmakers in Arkansas, Kansas, North Dakota, West Virginia, Iowa, and Wyoming have already <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ballotpedia.org\/2025\/06\/05\/iowa-becomes-the-sixth-state-to-ban-ranked-choice-voting-this-year\/#:~:text=In%20addition%20to%20Iowa%2C%20five,to%20do%20so%20in%202022.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">passed statewide bans<\/a>, bringing the total number of states with a ban on ranked-choice voting to 17.<\/p>\n<p>Several other states are also working to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >pass bills banning ranked-choice voting<\/a>, and the odds are good that additional states will join forces against the voting scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Yet despite widespread opposition and repeated failures, the left keeps pushing ranked-choice voting to serve its political interests, not the voters&rsquo;. But election systems aren&rsquo;t experiments. They&rsquo;re the launchpad of our democracy. Tampering with the fundamentals risks catastrophic failure.<\/p>\n<p>How many times do we have to sift through the wreckage before we admit ranked-choice voting just doesn&rsquo;t work? Confused voters, discarded ballots, and delayed results aren&rsquo;t unfortunate side effects &mdash; they&rsquo;re inherent in the system.<\/p>\n<p>The possibility of an open socialist leading one of America&rsquo;s most important cities should be a wake-up call to voters and state legislatures across the nation to hold the line and reject any electoral system that sacrifices accuracy, voter confidence, and the principle of one person, one vote.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Madeline Malisa is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Government Accountability<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City may soon advance a socialist in the mayoral primary, aided by ranked-choice voting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3891,"featured_media":2448214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/52815465799_89a9ab7086_k.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[6571,7332,5894,36265,12428],"class_list":["post-2448213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-elections","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-ranked-choice-voting","tag-socialism"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/52815465799_89a9ab7086_k.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448213","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\/3891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2448217,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448213\/revisions\/2448217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2448214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}