The Oregon Legislature on Sunday's final day of the session passed House Bill 2004, which puts a proposal to move to ranked choice voting for federal and statewide races on the statewide ballot in November 2024.
Ranked choice doesn’t mean proportional elector distribution. It means you vote for candidates in order of preference, and if your preferred candidate is last, your vote goes to your next preferred candidate.
Ranked choice does have it’s own problems, but it’s better than first past the post. Star voting improves the formula quite a bit.
I think you are speaking to a disinformation person, who is deliberately introducing some nonsense-logic into the equation as a reason not to use RCV, in the hopes of fooling some people into not wanting to do it because they don’t want to hurt the Democrats.
I thought they were just confused about proportional elector distribution vs ranked choice, too, up until just a second ago, and then it all made sense. They’re still blandly doubling down on their misinterpretation and ignoring what you’re saying and just repeating the original message, too.
Ranked choice doesn’t mean proportional elector distribution. It means you vote for candidates in order of preference, and if your preferred candidate is last, your vote goes to your next preferred candidate.
Ranked choice does have it’s own problems, but it’s better than first past the post. Star voting improves the formula quite a bit.
I think you are speaking to a disinformation person, who is deliberately introducing some nonsense-logic into the equation as a reason not to use RCV, in the hopes of fooling some people into not wanting to do it because they don’t want to hurt the Democrats.
I thought they were just confused about proportional elector distribution vs ranked choice, too, up until just a second ago, and then it all made sense. They’re still blandly doubling down on their misinterpretation and ignoring what you’re saying and just repeating the original message, too.